Director Derrick Lui reveals the difficulties encountered during the production of Oversteer, Singapore's first car racing movie.
Oversteer may be touted as Singapore 's first car racing movie, but director Derrick Lui was all but cruising his way to the finish line when it came to making the film. It took 10 years from Derrick — an avid car enthusiast himself — writing the story to it finally being shown in cinemas. It was also shot back between 2018 and 2019, but its release was delayed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Derrick, 48, told AsiaOne in an interview before the press conference on Friday (Jan 26) that if 'you have a lot of money, you can make a movie in three months'. 'But if you don't have the money, then you have to knock on many doors and ask for collaborators. So that took a long, long time,' he explained. 'So when collaborators finally came along, the producer took another two, two-and-a-half years or so to get going. 'And then everything fell apart, and we had to get someone else in and then everything fell apart again
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