ABEJOYE SEASON 4 – Fantalk

You’re welcome to this Fantalk edition for an upcoming movie – Abejoye Season 4. The trailer of the much-anticipated Season 4 of the much-loved Abejoye series was released some days ago. The movie was certainly expected in some quarters because so far, a season of Abejoye has been shown in December for 3 years now. Season 1 was premiered in 2017, Season 2 in 2018, Season 3 in 2019 and now, Season 4, I’d greatly hope will be premiered or released in December 2020. As usual, we’ll make as many cast, crew and plot guesses. So, let’s do just that.

• THE CAST

The trailer shows five characters, two whom we already know from previous seasons – our beloved Baba Olaiotan Abejoye spotting his usual white attire, and the King of Ajibogun played by Evangelist Yemi Adepoju. Richard Omidiwura, who featured in Family Next Door (2017) and Awon Akoni (2019), is seen here as a possible foe for Abejoye or perhaps, an old acquaintance, maybe as members of the same cult. I think I heard Baba call him Jogunomi. Also, two idol priests, one of whom I identified as Bunmi Bamitale, also seem to be formidable foes for Olaiotan. The priestess particularly seems to have cornered him at a time in the night. One similarity I observed about the two priests is an affinity for the drum, which they use in probably preparing themselves for battle. I like the way the beating of the drum/altar by both characters synchronises with the original background tune for the Abejoye series. That was really nice sound arrangement by the editor of this trailer.

• THE CREW

From precedence, I can only assume that the DOP is Damilola Mike-Bamiloye or Joshua Mike-Bamiloye as we see bits of their trademark pans and zooms in the trailer. We can also guess the script was written by Daddy Mike Bamiloye. One area in which I think this season will be different from previous seasons is the volume of the crew. In the previous seasons, there were separate crews for Nigeria and the USA. From the trailer however, as well as from the ending of Season 3 that showed Baba leaving the US for Nigeria, there might only be a Nigeria crew. Indeed, one setting presumed to be Abejoye’s home in Nigeria, and the props like the hand fan, radio, plate and lantern, all corroborate that guess. Nonetheless, it’s not impossible that we’d still get to see some of our favourite characters like Bamidele, Mama Gboyega, Pastor, Mummy Pastor and the kids. Maybe Baba and Dedun’s family would hook up in Nigeria as suggested at the end of Season 2; we’ll see.

• THE PLOT

The trailer doesn’t give much away but we can be sure that there’ll be a few more battles between The Almighty (the subtitle of this new season) through Baba Abejoye and his foes. The king of Ajibogun praises him and this would make us think that anyone who still dared consider facing him must think much of their powers. Something about this trailer is that it’s rather grim in tone; it also feels rather solitary. We’re not used to Baba being in solitude; similarly, he seems rather disturbed by Jogunomi’s appearance and we can only wonder what encounters they might have had in the past. Even Baba’s white outfits aren’t as bright as we know them to be. I think the colour grading was mostly made a bit brownish to add to that serious tone. That is why I think there will be another trailer that would give us some of that light-heartedness we’ve enjoyed in previous seasons, just to give some kind of balanced expectation from the movie.

Till the next article, stay blessed!

Watch the trailer below: