Young & Fabulous (2016)

Interesting facts

Young & Fabulous is a 2016 Singaporean cosplay-themed and coming of age film directed by Michael Woo and Joyce Lee. It stars Aloysius Pang, Joshua Tan, Joyce Chu, Gurmit Singh, Henry Thia, Quan Yi Fong, Jeffrey Xu and Jordan Ng. The film was released in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam.

Production

On 1 April 2015, during the press conference, it was announced that the film would be directed by Kelvin Sng, and would be projected to be released by November 2015. However, there had been delays in the post-production process, and Michael Woo and Joyce Lee were revealed as the new directors, with Lee also taking up the role of the executive producer and producer.

Quan Yi Fong was cast as Royston's mother, which was her first major role since starring in 12 Storeys in 1997, and said that she "had a shock" when she heard about her role, according to an interview with The Straits Times. Gurmit Singh, who had usually been cast in comedic roles, found it a "challenge" playing the role of Mr Boo, a strict discipline master.

In a Lianhe Wanbao interview, director and producer Joyce Lee revealed that Aloysius Pang, who plays the lead role Royston in Young & Fabulous, broke a blood vessel in his eye during the second day of filming, and his reddened eye was subsequently touched up in post-production.

Filming started on 15 April 2015, with a production budget of S$1.2 million. It was later revealed that the budget had risen to S$1.5 million.

The film score for Young & Fabulous is composed by Taiwanese composer JerryC, who penned Our Times' film theme song A Little Happiness. Young & Fabulous' theme song, entitled "3 2 1 Go!", is composed by Namewee and sung by Joyce Chu. Its music video was uploaded onto YouTube on 11 April 2016.

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