Yahoo Lifestyle Netflix Thailand Unveils Series From ‘How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies’ Team & Feature Film Slate
Netflix Thailand is adding a rags-to-riches series exec produced by the team behind How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies and a feel-good movie about snow sculpting to a nine-strong originals slate for 2025.
The streamer has unveiled one new series, one returner and six movies. As revealed last week, it is also putting a February 27 launch date on its upcoming series Dalah: Death and the Flowers.
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The slate comes at a delicate time for Netflix Thailand, which this week saw originals chief Yongyoot Thongkongtoon exit for “personal reasons,” according to trade title Content Asia.
On the series front comes Mad Unicorn and the returning faith and finance drama The Believers. Mad Unicorn is from Thai studio GDH 559 and is notable as the series directorial debut of Nottapon Boonprakob, a writer for One for the Road. Jira Maligool and Vanridee Pongsittisak, who were behind the megahit film How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, are the exec producers.
According to Netflix, the show “dramatizes the story of a fiercely determined entrepreneur from northern Thailand who builds himself up from zero to become the country’s first unicorn start-up in the express delivery industry.”
The other series order is for a final season of The Believers, which will sit alongside the likes of Global Top 10 Non-English Netflix topper Master of the House and mystery drama Don’t Come Home.
On the film side, Netflix is billing Frozen Hot Boys as having a similar underdog theme to Mad Unicorn. The feature is billed as “not only a feel-good movie but also stranger than fiction,” following troubled Thai youths who defy the odds to compete in an international snow-sculpting competition. Production details haven’t been released.
Khao Chum Thong (WT) reunites director Wisit Sasanatieng with actor-comedian Phetthai Vongkumlao after the pair worked together on The Murderer. Inspired by real events, it follows Ko-Wah, a Robin Hood-like outlaw from Southern Thailand.
Tee Yai Rerk Dao Jone (WT) centers on notorious bandit Tee Yai and comes from director Nonzee Nimibutr (Once Upon a Star). It is se in 1980s Bangkok and presents “a different perspective” of Tee Yai’s life, according to Netflix.
Everybody Loves Me When I’m Dead is from veteran filmmaker Nithiwat Tharatorn, who was behind 2023’s Analog Squad. It marks his first crime thriller and tells the tale of bank employees plotting to steal from the dormant bank account of an old dead woman. Ken-Theeradej Wongpuapan and Hugo-Chulachak Chakrabongse will star.
Ziam, meanwhile, will pit Thai martial arts against zombies. Produced by Kantana, which makes Master of the House, the action-thriller stars Mark-Prin Suparat, who underwent extensive bare-handed combat training training for his first Netflix film.
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