The company announced on Monday that Coco Martin, Lovi Poe, and Charo Santos-Concio will star in an ABS-CBN adaptation of the 1986 film “Batang Quiapo” to commemorate the 18th death anniversary of film icon Fernando Poe, Jr. (FPJ).

The modern retelling of the story, titled “FPJ’s Batang Quiapo,” will be produced by Dreamscape Entertainment, the same ABS-CBN production unit behind “FPJ’s Ang Probinsyano,” and Martin’s own CCM Film Productions.

Martin will co-direct with Malu Sevilla, who worked with him on the ABS-CBN primetime series “Ang Probinsyano,” which became ingrained in Philippine pop culture over its seven-year run. “Ang Probinsyano,” like the upcoming program, was based on an FPJ film of the same name.

Poe, FPJ’s daughter, will be paired with Martin for the first time in the “Batang Quiapo” remake. The two have been cast as love interests.

Santos-Concio, who appeared as a guest star in “Ang Probinsyano,” will work again with Martin on another action-packed project. This time, the veteran actress will play the lead actor’s grandmother.

Several screen veterans, including Christopher de Leon, Tommy Abuel, Cherry Pie Picache, Pen Medina, Lito Lapid, and Susan Africa, join them in the cast.

Mark Lapid, Ronwaldo Martin, Ping Medina, Mercedes Cabral, Allan Paule, and Benzon Dalina are among the newcomers to the cast.

The original “Batang Quiapo” was an action-comedy film about Baldo (FPJ), a former pickpocket who becomes reformed after his time in prison. When he returns to Quiapo, a young pickpocket named Maria (Maricel Soriano) asks him to teach her his trade, but instead he tries to steer her in the right direction.