Bloody Crayons (film)

Bloody Crayons
Directed by	Enrico Santos
Produced by	Charo Santos-Concio Malou Santos
Written by	Quark Henares
Based on	Bloody Crayons by Josh Argonza
Starring	Jane Oineza Julia Barretto Khalil Ramos Maris Racal Iñigo Pascual Sofia Andres Yves Flores Diego Loyzaga Ylona Garcia Bailey May
Production company	ABS-CBN Film Productions, Inc.
Distributed by	Star Cinema
Country	Philippines
Language	Filipino English

Bloody Crayons is an upcoming 2016 Filipino horror thriller film directed by Enrico Santos, from a script written by Quark Henares based on the book of the same name by Josh Argonza. The film stars Jane Oineza, Julia Barretto, Khalil Ramos, Maris Racal, Iñigo Pascual, Sofia Andres, Yves Flores, Diego Loyzaga, and serves as film debut of newcomers Ylona Garcia and Bailey May.

Development began in April 2015, when Star Cinema picked up the film rights of the book. Filming started on April 6, 2016.

Synopsis

A group of graduating students goes to an island for a short film project when they are rattled by a mysterious killer who strives to kill all of them.

Cast

• Jane Oineza as Olivia Mendez
• Julia Barretto as Eunice Nicolas
• Khalil Ramos as Kiko Rivera
• Maris Racal as Richalaine Alcantara
• Iñigo Pascual as John Jose
• Sofia Andres as Marie Ragma
• Yves Flores as Justin Ybañez
• Diego Loyzaga as Kenly Sy
• Ylona Garcia as Katy
• Bailey May as Tommy

Production

Pre-production

Bloody Crayons is a film adaptation of Josh Argonza's book of the same name. In April 2015, Star Cinema picked up the film rights of the book, with Malou N. Santos and Charo Santos-Concio as executive producers. In the same month, it was officially announced that Jane Oineza would star, alongside Joshua Garcia and Manolo Pedrosa.

On February 2016, almost a year later, Quark Henares was set to direct along with Earl Ignacio as assistant director. It was also revealed that Henares worked on the script for the past year. Julia Barretto, Khalil Ramos, Maris Racal, Sofia Andres, Yves Flores, Diego Loyzaga have been cast; also, Iñigo Pascual, Ylona Garcia, and Bailey May were cast in unspecified roles. Later, Pascual announced via Twitter that he would be playing the role of John Jose. On February 24, 2016, Garcia and May's roles were revealed to be Katy and Tommy, respectively, characters that are not from the book.

Look tests for the actors occurred on February 22, 2016 and March 21, 2016.

Filming

Principal photography was set to begin in the summer right after Henares finished making his film My Candidate, but he departed from the director's chair weeks before filming, reiterating through a tweet that he's "no longer connected" to the project. Production was confirmed to be underway on April 6, 2016 when several of the cast posted photos of themselves on set on their respective Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages, with Enrico Santos at the helm.

Further on-location filming was done in Lian, Batangas from April 22, 2016 and expected to last until the end of the month. Pascual stated that "their are more surprises" and "the book is different" from the film adaptation. He also disclosed in his Instagram that Racal is playing the role of Richalaine Alcantara instead of April Apostol which was originally drafted.