‘On the Job 2’ teaser features John Arcilla and a jab at false idols

ICYMI, ‘On the Job 2’ has finally finished filming after three years. Director Erik Matti celebrated the feat on Instagram last August 30, writing ‘It’s a it’s a goddamn fu&#in’ wrap! Thank you to the relentless passion of the staff, cast, and crew’.

Fast forward a few weeks later and we finally got an official teaser from the long-anticipated sequel to the 2013 hit. The clip features John Arcilla seeking help from an anonymous friend and ends with a quote that seems to throw shade at blind loyalty.

‘I couldn’t stand living in a society that admires the emperor’s new clothes, when I see so clearly that he is naked’.

OTJ 2 is on its way. We need your support. Please spread the word. Thank you so much: lets hear it from Erik Matti: Please indulge me. It’s been 3 days since our last day of shoot for #OTJ2. But I still can’t get it out of my head. The possibilities of the film. The opportunities that are open and the failures that can happen. My fears as to its future is making me anxious. 3 years in the works is no joke. This pandemic made the release of this movie even more daunting. What if it bombs? What if no one sees it? What if we don’t get to release it? What if we can’t recoup the investment? #OnTheJob2 was designed as an epic. And with an epic scale comes an equally epic budget. We’ve been burned so many times with our expectations on our films. #HonorThyFather had an A-list star attached and I believe an engaging story but didn’t get the support of the audience in its theatrical release. #Kuwaresma the same too. We poured our trust to giving the film a shot at the box office by not just relying on a good story but also casting big names to give it the attention it deserves from our usual star-driven audience. #BuyBust was similar too. It had the promise of a hit. Yes, for an R-16 film it made pretty well at the box office. But again, budget. It was really huge. We were romantics to think that just like the movie Field of Dreams we thought, “build it and they will come.” They didn’t. Our films mostly suffer a delayed reaction on how much people want to see it. Almost always, it never gets the chance to stay long enough in the cinemas to give it the traction it needs after the word-of-mouth kicks in. Now, OTJ #TheMissing8 is here. And Globe Studios and Reality Entertainment are both very excited and scared at the same time. New landscape, new normal. We are excited at the film’s possibilities. That the changes over the past 6 months may give way to something better for Philippine movies. But we’re as much scared as we are excited. What if it stays the same? What if after all these changes everything turns out to be all the same as it was before? That our film opens and it stays in the movie house for two days without a chance for word of mouth?….. What if there’s still no cinemas and we launch online but no one goes and buys it seeing online streaming might be too early for everyone to accept as the alternative platform to the cinema experienxe? What if everyone doesn’t pay for watching it and decides to just catch it for free on downloads like most of what happened to our films? I am scared of all these. But I am also equally so excited to finally show this film. 3 years of making it gave me a chance to tell the audience the best story out of it. I know this film works! It just has to have a chance to be seen. This film may probably be the last big one I could make if this Covid-19 ruins our filmmaking process. It will be sometime ‘til anyone will have budgets this big. And I want everything to do well for this film. We have built it. Now if only everyone comes to see this when it releases, it will all be worth it. – Erik Matti

Posted by John Arcilla on Friday, September 11, 2020

Arcilla, whose appearance confirmed reports about his casting alongside Dennis Trillo, Lotlot De Leon and Ricky Davao, also shared a lengthy message from Matti reflecting both the excitement and uncertainty surrounding the film’s release.

‘This pandemic made the release of this movie even more daunting’, reads an excerpt.

‘What if it bombs? What if no one sees it? What if we don’t get to release it? What if we can’t recoup the investment?’, writes Matti, citing that local films remain a gamble, regardless of the high budget and the big names attached to the projects.

Still, Matti is ecstatic for a film that has long been a subject of his creative struggles and triumphs. He also believes that OTJ 2 will probably be his last big-budget film for now.

‘3 years of making it gave me a chance to tell the audience the best story out of it. I know this film works! It just has to have a chance to be seen’.

‘We have built it. Now if only everyone comes to see this when it releases, it will all be worth it’.

For what it’s worth, we believe the audience – including us – will be there 

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