#Carla gonzalez vargas series

#Carla gonzalez vargas series

This time around, because the series already existed and people knew that we were trustworthy in terms of our quality, and our prudence in a way of handling sources. What was the research and interview process like compared to the first season? So, we’ve been growing the business and establishing it simultaneously with filming and production. The show launched and gave birth, figuratively speaking, to a unique company, and that is doing things that haven’t been necessarily done before, and finding the right people and the right team to have a unique bicultural profile and be bicultural in terms of development is complex, to navigate both markets.

So, Gato Grande is two years old, and we started “Luis Miguel” four years ago. My main challenge was making it more standardized because it was all that show when I was doing season one. It prolonged the whole process painfully, so we decided to film seasons back-to-back, and the shoot got interrupted five times. It’s been a couple of years since the first season debuted, so how did the creative and production process change for Season 2 compared to Season 1? Did COVID affect you in any way?ĬOVID affected it a lot. So, we are transcending that and focusing much more on purely scripted series. We have contemplated a few names that we feel can travel and translate well worldwide, but their lives narratively speaking or dramatically speaking are not rich enough to have a super compelling drama, even if you’re not a follower of that person, per se. It’s not the same strategic bet in terms of development. We are looking at all of the new projects that we’re developing that are not related to biopic series in general because it’s very rare to find celebrities or public figures that appeal worldwide in both languages. What other iconic lives would you like to adapt for the screen (or would you like to see adapted)? 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.

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. It’s always hard to recount and reveal truths about the life of a widely recognized celebrity in a biopic format.