What other iconic lives would you like to adapt for the screen (or would you like to see adapted)?
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CAMILA JURADO/NETFLIX ©️ 2021 Camila Jurado/Netflix How do you think the recent surge in demand for Spanish-language biopic series in predominantly English-language markets will drive what productions MGM and Gato Grande Productions will consider now. LUIS MIGUEL LA SERIE – Temporada 2 (L to R) FERNANDO GUALLAR as AMBROSI and DIEGO BONETA as LUIS MIGUEL in Episode 202 of LUIS MIGUEL LA SERIE Temporada 2. I think they’re all universal principles that make for such a great story, so that is what is so rare about this project. Plus, having a huge spotlight and appearing from the outside to have everything but, the more fame you have, the more your private life crumbles. I think it touches on primal aspects- the drama of being orphaned, so to speak, from parents at a very young age, having had a mother taken away in such a manner, without any explanation, and having your father be your antagonist. Fortunately, the rare combination comes with a dramatic, rich story that has universal appeal. It’s good music that we have all made a part of our personal stories as listeners and audience. I think it’s precisely the combination of a very famous name with music that has shaped generations since he’s had a career for almost 30 years now because he started so young that his music has been with us for so many years. CAMILA JURADO/NETFLIX ©️ 2021 Camila Jurado/Netflix Why do you think Luis Miguel’s story has worldwide appeal? LUIS MIGUEL LA SERIE – Temporada 2 (L to R) MARTIN BELLO as TITO and LOLA CASAMAYOR as MATILDE and DIEGO BONETA as LUIS MIGUEL and AXEL LLUNAS as SERGIO BASTERI and JUANPA ZURITA as ALEX BASTERI in Episode 201 of LUIS MIGUEL LA SERIE Temporada 2. She also addressed the challenges of portraying the Mexican legend’s well-recorded public and tumultuous private life, from his days as a 1980s child prodigy with a bowl hair cut to the present.
Diego Boneta plays the title role.įollowing the April 18 debut of “Luis Miguel: La serie” Season 2 (which marks the titular star’s real birthdate), González Vargas spoke with Variety about tapping into Spanish-language biopic fever.
But she hadn’t tackled someone as beloved as Luis Miguel for a platform as broad as Netflix. It’s another challenge altogether when that celebrity is Luis Miguel, colloquially known as “The Sun of Mexico.”Ĭarla González Vargas, showrunner of “Luis Miguel: La serie” on Netflix and president of Gato Grande productions, a joint venture with MGM Studios, had experience adapting the life of controversial figures, having worked in journalism and then written a book on Woody Allen in 2004. Once the series went into production, with Pablo Cruz’s Canana providing production services, Gonzalez Vargas’ role was to hold it together in narrative tone and development – a hugely complex challenge as it shot by location, not chronologically.It’s always hard to recount and reveal truths about the life of a widely recognized celebrity in a biopic format. “The father is basically the person that makes him a star but also the person that bankrupts his son emotionally,” Gonzalez Vargas comments. His reaction? To burst into song on stage, as if nothing has happened at all, in a massive suspect act of disavowal. In the opening scene, Luis Miguel, played with absolute conviction by Boneta, learns that his father is dying back in Spain. “My first decision was to make sure that all that story was transmitted the right way to the writers room and oversee the whole process.”Īnother achievement was finding a narrative way into a life whose biography is characterized to date by extraordinary but soulless sales numbers.įrom Ep.1’s get-go, this is a son’s struggle to emerge from the long shadow and pathological exploitation of his father. They were very long meetings, very intense,” she recalls. “We met about five times, I’d say like three hours each time. Here, Gonzalez Vargas was a source of assurance. MGM TV’s Mark Burnett, Gonzalez Vargas and Aleman spent hours with the notoriously discreet Luis Miguel to persuade him to not only authorize a bio-series but reveal his real life’s story. One of the series’ biggest virtues is merely existing. Screened Sundays on Netflix and Telemundo from April 22, “Luis Miguel” has become one of the biggest hits of the year, a social phenomenon, with demand expressions per capita almost as high in Argentina as the singer’s native Mexico, according to a Parrot Analytics study.
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