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The feature film starring Carmen Maura will become a television fiction in which Pedro Almodóvar himself will be involved as executive producer
The story of Pepa, that dubbing actress deliciously played by Carmen Maura who, after breaking up with her partner and fed up with the memories that the walls of her apartment contain, decides to rent the house giving way to the most extravagant people will become a Serie. Apple is preparing a television fiction inspired by ‘Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown’ (1988), the feature film that began to pave the way for Pedro Almodóvar’s success.
The news has been published by ‘The Hollywood Reporter’, which has also indicated that the filmmaker from La Mancha will be in the project, through El Deseo, as executive producer. Apparently, Tim Cook’s company has bought the rights to Almodóvar’s work and the project is so advanced that it has already been revealed who Pepa will be on this occasion. Gina Rodriguez, winner of the Golden Globe for ‘Jane the Virgin’, will be responsible for succeeding Carmen Maura in a role as rich in nuances as it is complex. The interpreter will also act as executive producer, while Noelle Valdivia, responsible for ‘Mozart in the Jungle’, will act as ‘showrunner’ in this project in charge of Lionsgate Television.
In addition, it will not lose its Latin origin since the series is expected to alternate dialogues in Spanish and English, as will also happen with ‘Now and Then’, the thriller that Bambú Producciones is preparing for Apple TV +.
It should be remembered that it is not the first time that ‘Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown’ is about to become a television series beyond our borders. In 2009, Fox TV Studios launched an adaptation that was also going to have Almodóvar’s blessing, although it was going to move away from the plot of the film and be written entirely in English. Ultimately, it couldn’t be.
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