SINGAPORE – Before the late local actor Aloysius Pang embarked on his fateful reservist training in New Zealand in 2019, he was in Thailand, filming his first set of scenes for a horror movie.
He had expected to return to Thailand after his training to continue production.
But tragedy struck. Pang died carrying out repair works during the training at the age of 28 and never completed the movie.
Now, after three years of deliberation, rewrites and a pandemic that stalled film production and travel, his final performance is finally ready for audiences on the big screen.
Pang’s posthumous work The Antique Shop opens in cinemas here on Thursday. The film was released in Thailand in June.
The film’s executive producer, local host-actor Dasmond Koh, who is also the founder of NoonTalk Media – the agency that managed Pang – and the late star’s mentor, says: “I had this…
