TBA Studios rolls out production for Jerrold Tarog's "Quezon", targeting 2025 premiere

Jan 17, 2025
quezon movie jerrold tarog

After seven years, production is now set for "Quezon", the highly anticipated biopic about former Philippine president Manuel L. Quezon.

"Quezon" was first teased as a post-credits stinger for "Goyo: Ang Batang Heneral", where Mon Confiado's Emilio Aguinaldo peeked through the campaign posters of his rival, then-presidential aspirant Manuel L. Quezon.  

TBA Studios announced the news, marking the company's first major film production since 2020 after distributing titles like "Everything Everywhere All At Once" and "Past Lives" to cinemas in the Philippines. 

Filming for "Quezon" will start in March 2025. It continues writer-director Jerrold Tarog's string of Philippine history films, which include "Heneral Luna" and "Goyo: Ang Batang Heneral." The movie is expected to follow the life of Manuel L. Quezon, a Filipino lawyer and soldier who became the President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944, highlighting his tumultuous presidential campaign against then-President Emilio Aguinaldo. 

According to TBA Studios President and COO Daphne Chiu, “Quezon” will be released both locally and worldwide. She added that the film will be produced as a stand-alone—a movie that exists within the same cinematic continuity of TBA Studios’ beloved historical films “Heneral Luna" and “Goyo: Ang Batang Heneral”, but will be made accessible to moviegoers who have not seen the earlier films.

Tarog will return to helm this movie, supported by the Philippine government agency National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP), the latter announcing last year a funding support for the movie. This landmark partnership signals a shared goal between TBA Studios, NCCA, and FDCP to further strengthen the local film industry by delivering and promoting world-class films.

Casting for the movie’s major and supporting roles is currently underway and will be announced soon. Chiu teases that the cast will feature names that will surprise and excite audiences.

Comments

Related Posts

{{posts[0].title}}

{{posts[0].date}} {{posts[0].commentsNum}} {{messages_comments}}

{{posts[1].title}}

{{posts[1].date}} {{posts[1].commentsNum}} {{messages_comments}}

{{posts[2].title}}

{{posts[2].date}} {{posts[2].commentsNum}} {{messages_comments}}

{{posts[3].title}}

{{posts[3].date}} {{posts[3].commentsNum}} {{messages_comments}}