04/06/2026
More than 5 years ago i had a revelation to make a movie from d story of Esther in d bible. So we took out time to do an extract of d story, wrote it, and made it an African set, African costumes, locations, and also Actors. We shot d first one, everything crashed in d computer, and all my millions in d movie got lost.
On normal circumstances, I would hv just cried and move on, being that loosing d rushes of ur movies is something that happens most times to loads of movie producers. So it's not strange, We just cry and close shop, or continue. Some of us that hv decided on this career, just cry over d lost millions, adjust, and continue.
So when d first ESTHER got lost, I cried, adjusted, and moved on. But unlike other such situations, this one story refused to let me sleep, I cried for months bcos I just wanted to move on as usual, but my spirit was restless concerning this story ESTHER. I couldn't move on, I wanted to gather money, call everyone back, and shoot it again, but getting millions of naira to reshoot a story I already shot? I kept trying not to, i wrote and produced other movies, pushing Myself away from ESTHER whenever it pops up in my head, but d Gods must hv had a reason they wanted me to make this story, they didn't let me rest.
So I gathered myself, picked up d script again and embarked on d second round of Filming ESTHER.
After filming d second version, finished editing, colour, sounds, everything to master copy. I began to move around d industry marketing circles, discussing d release and marketing of ESTHER. One day I got a call to come with a preview copy of d movie so as to discuss d marketing, I was d happiest, finally, d Gods will be happy, I fulfilled their message/erand. I rushed to d studio to discuss about cutting a preview copy wit our Editor, everyone in d studio was elated to hear d good news.
Then another thunderbolt, we couldn't find d master copy harddrive, we searched, everywhere, turned my house and d studio upside down, but that master copy in a 2 terabytes Harddrive was nowhere to be found. It was missing. Nothing has ever gone missing in this studio before, nothing. But ESTHER was gone, I cried another round of cry, but this time was different, this time I had backups of d rushes in different hardrives incase, once bitten twice sensible 😁( rushes is d raw copies of when we film a movie)
To cut a short story shorter, I'm now trying to embark on starting all over to Edit a new master copy, which will cost another round of hundreds of thousands of naira. But I refuse to give up on this.
Child of God. Stay strong, when d Gods send u on a mission, they help u finish it, but u must never get tired until u achieve it. We r working on it again, and hope to complete it soon, and bring it to ur screens. ESTHER produced by Shan George . Coming soon. This is not an official poster. Just a teaser.
