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EXCLUSIVE: Guillermo Arriaga‘s original screenplay connected which seminal Mexican movie Amores Perros was based is being turned into a scripted TV series.
AF Films has acquired authorities to Perro Blanco, Perro Negro and is moving pinch Sofia Vergara’s Hispanic talent guidance and intermezo institution LatinWe to create and nutrient a high-end world play series. A root adjacent to nan task told america Arriaga will beryllium a imaginative advisor, pinch AF’s Frank Ariza nan producer.
AF and LatinWe are overseeing development, packaging and production, and person begun “early conversations pinch world partners and platforms,” they say. The authorities acquisition is purely for nan original screenplay, and not for an adjustment of Alejandro González Iñárritu‘s 2000 pic Amores Perros.
The screenplay was nan ground of Iñárritu’s directorial debut, which is considered among nan first classical films of nan 21st century. Amores Perros premiered successful Cannes, wherever it won nan Critics’ Week Grand Prize and launched nan careers of some Iñárritu and Arriaga. A BAFTA triumph and an Academy Award information followed.
The caller bid will beryllium “inspired by and based upon” nan screenplay and its communicative universe, pinch Amores Perros being nan first of Iñárritu’s ‘Trilogy of Death’ – nan others are nan Arriaga-penned 21 Grams and Oscar victor Babel. Arriaga will thief style nan narrative, characteristic arcs and thematic continuity.
Per nan producers, nan adjustment will “revisit and grow nan thematic foundations established successful Perro Blanco, Perro Negro – interconnected lives, civilized fracture and nan earthy affectional terrain of municipality beingness – reimagined done a modern lens and long-form storytelling.”
“This is 1 of nan astir important pieces of cinematic IP to look from Latin America successful nan past 25 years, ” said Ariza, laminitis of AF Films. “Bringing this worldly backmost to its imaginative source, and doing truthful successful collaboration pinch Guillermo Arriaga, allows america not only to grant its legacy, but to germinate it into a caller shape that speaks to today’s world audience.”
For AF, nan news comes successful nan days aft it secured remake rights to Paolo Genovese’s Follomente, Italy’s biggest container agency deed of 2025, for Mexico. The AF Mexico type will beryllium titled Love and Mind.
LatinWe, founded by intermezo executive Luis Balaguer and Modern Family prima Vergara, was launched to link Latino talent pinch nan U.S. mainstream. Its accumulation slate includes ABC’s Killer Women, El Secreto de Selena, Su Nombre Era Dolores and animated characteristic Koati.
