Fourth time lucky

THE ROLE of the “flexible and stretchable” superhero in Mars Ravelo’s Lastikman has been played three times before — by Von Serna, Vic Sotto and the latest, by singer-actor Mark Bautista in a 2005 Metro Manila Film Festival entry — but Vhong Navarro...

By Aprylle Liabres (Contributor)

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Published: Mon 27 Aug 2007, 9:53 AM

Last updated: Sat 4 Apr 2015, 8:40 PM

luckwho’s been tapped to play him a fourth time, believes that while the third time can be the charm, the fourth time can be just as lucky too.

Vhong will be playing Lastikman in a television action-fantasy series due to premiere on ABS-CBN in September. Directed by not just one, but three, directors, Lastikman is the story of the half-alien and half-human Eskappar who was exiled from the Planet Harraio and sent to earth by his mother to escape death. There, a kind earthling adopts him and gives him the name Miguel. Growing up, Miguel discovers that he has the ability to be elastic, and this makes him different from other human beings. Afraid to embarrass his foster father and be considered an outcast by their community, Miguel keeps his powers to himself. But as he grows up and finds out that the evil in the world threatens the lives of his loved ones, Miguel is forced to use his powers as Lastikman to battle aliens disguised as mad scientists.


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