‘Darna’ to soar high, movie casts start shooting

Liza Soberano INQUIRER.net

Film director Erik Matti denies rumors that the much-awaited “Darna” movie has been shelved.

In a recent Twitter entry, the director posted a short but on-point answer to rumors saying the film won’t push through.

He wrote, “Shelved na Darna? Sino may sabe? Paano ‘to?” (Darna is shelved? Who said? How’s this [then]?”

He then posted a photo of what seems to be a planning session for the movie.

Meanwhile, Mico Del Rosario of Star Creatives also echoed the same sentiment. Uploading a screenshot of an article about the movie being shelved, he negated the said news and clarified that shooting is actually ongoing.

He wrote, “THIS IS NOT TRUE. Spoken already to Tito Ricky Lo and clarify that DARNA has already started shooting. Tuloy na tuloy po ang Darna.”

This generation’s “Darna” will be top-billed by famous Kapamilya actress Liza Soberano. The ‘50s movie queen Rosa del Rosario was the first ever woman who gave life to Darna. In the ‘60s, actress Liza Morena assumed the heroine’s costume in “Si Darna at and Impaktita.” Eva Montes and Gina Pareño also made their versions of the movie in the ‘60s.

Perhaps the most famous actress ever to play Darna was Star for All Seasons Vilma Santos in 1973. The movie was re-made by two more iconic actress in the ‘70s, Lorna Tolentino in 1977 and Rio Locsin in 1979.

Even the Megastar Sharon Cuneta had a chance wearing Darna’s costume when she did a cameo role to Edu Manzano’s “Captain Barbell” movie in 1986.

In the ‘90s comes inarguable two of the sexiest women ever to play Darna, Nanette Medved who played the role in 1991 followed by another bombshell Anjanette Abayari in 1994.

Darna last appeared on the big screen in 2003 when Asia’s songbird Regine Velasquez assumed her powers for the movie “Captain Barbell.”

She was later revived on television by Angel Locsin in 2005 and Marian Rivera in 2009. /jpv