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Filipino director Erik Matti has collaborated with Netflix for the series “BuyBust: The Undesirables,“ starring Anne Curtis and Gerald Anderson.
At the JAFF Creative Asia 2025 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Matti, together with Indonesia’s Joko Anwar, participated at the Creator-to-Creator session to spotlight Netflix’s continued commitment to investing in original content for the region’s library and exploring the brand’s role in opportunities available to creatives across the region.
The filmmakers’ session served as the platform to announce Netflix’s first collaboration with Matti in “BuyBust: The Undesirables.“
The clip offered a glimpse into the depth of Matti’s world-building and reintroduced viewers to several returning characters from the 2018 film, including Curtis and the addition of Anderson, alongside new characters.
During his panel at JAFF, Matti shared that shortly after the film’s release in 2018, they partnered with Netflix Philippines to expand the original Buybust universe through a nine-episode series set to be released in 2026.
“We moved on from the drug war story and we made it about rich and poor — the powerful and the powerless. We wanted to talk about the Philippines as a country and whether it was impossible to ‘clean it up’ without going political. We are focusing on real characters and the real conflicts of each of them,” he said.
In “BuyBust: The Undesirables,” a vengeful ex-cop and a haunted corporate outcast are drawn together by the murder of a senator’s daughter and a citywide manhunt for the mysterious drug lord “Judas.”
Thrust from the Capital’s shadows into the anarchic exile zone of Matungao, they must survive betrayal, unmask the true Judas, and confront the cost of justice in a society where everyone is disposable. (J. Hicap/mb.com.ph)
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