Taiwanese shipowner Nobu Su could be coming to a cinema near you.
“The Outsider”, a film billed by the promoters as “a stranger-than-fiction feature documentary that gives 'Oceans 11' a run for its money”, premieres at London’s East End Film Festival on 20 April before going on what is described as “limited theatrical release” and being turned over to iTunes and DVD distribution.
Su has put cash into the movie, which has been made by Thomas Meadmore of Go Fish Films.
Early details from the producers paint a picture of Su that perhaps not everyone in the industry will recognise.
“Powerful, revered and described as a ‘visionary and revolutionary’, he was one of the most respected people in the shipping world, the world’s biggest transportation business,” Go Fish Films says.
‘Very little scrutiny’
“It’s an industry that accounts for the movement of some 90% of everything we consume in Western society, but a business that has very little scrutiny.”
But this is all about Su. The company goes on to detail that when the 2008 financial crash happened, Su “lost everything” — which it describes as “several billion dollars”.
“He felt cheated, believing that rivals were out to get revenge on perceived business slights, leaving him to sink like the rusting hulk of an old ship,” the promo says, going on to detail Su’s long-running battle with the Royal Bank of Scotland over his cash.
“Since 2008, he has been on a one-man crusade to understand what went wrong and who was to blame; himself, the banks, his rival shipowners or the system?”
Su has spent years and huge amounts of cash fighting his corner. At least the cost of a film is bound to be less expensive than the legal fees he has racked up.
