Kunle Afolayan’s ‘Aníkúlápó’ has emerged the most-watched film on Netflix in Nigeria in 2022.
According to the information on streaming statistics web site FlixPatrol, ‘Aníkúlápó’ overshadowed large worldwide initiatives like ‘Adam Project’ and ‘RRR’ to safe the high spot on the world’s main streaming leisure service supplier.
‘Anikulapo’, set in the seventeenth century historical Oyo kingdom, premiered on Netflix on September 30, 2022 and per week after its premiere, turned the most-watched non-English movie on Netflix, with a cumulative 8.7m streaming hours.
It stars Kunle Remi, Bimbo Ademoye, Sola Sobowale, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Taiwo Hassan, Kunle Afolayan, and others.
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Recall that Kunle Afolayan revealed that Netflix requested him to produce a collection from Anikulapo.
He mentioned: “I’ve been working on Aníkúlápó for six years. Originally, I wanted to make a series, but I shopped it and kept telling people that this movie would be bigger than Game of Thrones,” Afolayan mentioned.
“Eventually, Netflix told me to make a movie first since I believed in the project that much, and if it became a success, we’d develop a series.
“Right now, Netflix is the one urging me to start making the series. I knew we made a great film and that it’d start conversations, but I didn’t know it’d do as well as it has done,” he added.