Turki Al-Sheikh announces the start of filming on “The Eight”, the first series he wrote

Advisor Turki Al-Sheikh, head of the General Entertainment Authority, announced the start of filming on the first series he wrote, which is called “The Eight”, posting a photo from the first day of filming of the work, where Al-Sheikh was keen to bless the series’ family, on his personal page on the social networking site. Facebook, “saying,” I would like to congratulate the work crew on the first series of my authorship, ‘The Eight’, as today is the first day of filming for the series. “

Al-Sheikh indicated that the idea started when he finished writing the story of the eight and decided to make it into a series to be shown on screen, and from there he started to choose the elements that help him bring this work to light. .

Turki Al-Sheikh added: “My choice fell on the skillful director Ahmed Medhat after watching him several works and I was in America in New York State and asked him to come and sit down. with me to discuss the light way, and we started to choose the elements and my choice fell on the stars Aser Yassin, Khaled Al-Sawy, Hisham Selim, Ghada Adel, Mahmoud Al-Bazzawi, Reem Mustafa, Mahmoud Alaa (Jamaica), Munther Rayhana, Mustafa Al-Banna and a large number of Arab and international stars.

And Turki Al-Sheikh continued: “We have also used the decorator engineer, the skillful artist Muhammad Attia, and the wonderful clothing designer, Mona Al-Tunisi, and as part of my support for my compatriots, I used Saudi actor Khaled Saqr to play one of the important roles, and sister Bahrain’s actor Wadah Suwar, so that we can follow the terrible development of the series industry. I decided to rely on foreign elements who are the best in their field to achieve a high level of technology, so I used the international director of photography(Tómas Örn Tómasson) Who worked in big companies like my film Pacific Rim And Arctic, I also hired a sound engineer Bill Dinnelly Who worked in works like my movie فيلمGodzila, Aquaman. And also an international enterprise of the largest companies in the field of graphics, tips and other elements of the implementation of battles and explosions, with experts in makeup and makeup .

He continued: I also used knowledgeable screenwriter Amr Samir Atef to help me finish the script and write the dialogue in Egyptian dialect, and the work will be shown on MBC channels and the Shahid platform.