EXCLUSIVE: What occurs when a gaggle of sport rangers create their very own raunchy pasttime? That’s what director Brett Michael Innes units out to disclose in Showmax comedy Khaki Fever.
Right here, we’ve received the trailer for the South African characteristic, by which a gaggle of sport ranger workers arrange a problem to see who can hook up with essentially the most vacationers throughout a season whereas avoiding their conservative lodge supervisor, who makes it clear anybody fraternizing with company will probably be fired. The winner is known as King of Khaki and takes the losers’ ideas.
Innes is the director, with Loki Rothman (Koek) composing the rating and creating an authentic theme tune titled ‘Khaki Fever’. Innes wrote the script alongside husband Nick Ahlers and the married couple additionally produced the movie for Nostalgia Productions together with Paulo Areal. Christa Schamberger led on casting. It was shot in each English and Afrikaans.
Prime Billing presenter Christopher Jaftha leads the forged reverse 4 2025 Silwerskerm nominees – Anja Taljaard and Trix Vivier (each Juffrou X), Liam Bosman (Een Keer Om Die Son) and Ilse Klink (Nêrens, Noord-Kaap). Abel Knobel, Francois Jacobs (aka Kaalgat Karel) and Sean Brebnor (Getroud Met Rugby) additionally star as rangers. Juanita de Villiers (Reënboogrant) and Izette Blignaut (Binnelanders) full the forged.
Within the trailer, we see the rangers at Zalisa lodge flirting outrageously with company and anybody else they’ll discover, because the supervisor tells them their habits is “completely unacceptable.”
“You drive round like hooligans,” she provides, earlier than we reduce to rangers in an off-road truck shouting, “Dangerous boys for all times, inside 20 kilometers per hour.” Loads of flesh and suggestive appears are seen as company eye each the wildlife and their guides.
The movie will get its world premiere on the Silwerskerm Competition on August 22 at The Bay Lodge in Camps Bay, Cape City, earlier than launching on African streamer Showmax two weeks later (September 5). Taking pictures came about within the Crade of Humankind.
“Khaki fever is what occurs when lonely vacationers see ripped sport rangers get out of their 4×4 within the shortest of khaki shorts,” stated Innes. “For those who’ve ever been to a bushveld sport lodge, you’ve seen it first hand, so this can be a story about wild animals and wilder rangers.”
The director is hooked up to a few of the six movies in competitors at Silwerskerm, the African movie competition, having additionally written My F*okay Marelize and produced The Coronary heart is a Muscle, which received the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury on the Berlin Worldwide Movie Competition this 12 months. He has beforehand had movies similar to 2015’s Sink, which was his directorial debut, and Fiela’s Youngster at Silwerskerm.
Khaki Fever is his second comedy movie as director, coming after Daryn’s Gymnasium, which competed on the Worldwide Movie Competition Rotterdam in 2022. “I directed a brief movie for Silwerskerm final 12 months that was a couple of sleep-deprived mom who was able to kill her colicky child, so I wished this one to be the polar reverse when it comes to tone,” he stated. “This can be a Friday evening movie, a humorous and attractive safari escape with your folks after a protracted week.”
Showmax, whose mum or dad MultiChoice Group is within the throes of being offered to Canal+, has 5 originals at Silwerskerm this 12 months, with the others comprising whimsical household movie Discovering Optel and, in TV pilots class, the truth collection Vaal Riviera, the documentary Unstated Conflict, and the drama collection Ontwaak.
MultiChoice Studios has worldwide gross sales rights to Khaki Fever.
