The Mexican Eugenio Derbez returns to Spanish-language comedy with ‘And They Came at Night’a series that will premiere on October 4 on the ViX streaming platform and which has the actor as its protagonist and producer.
Eugenio Derbez’s production, based on real events, revolves around a group of Latinos who made a Spanish version of the 1931 feature film ‘Dracula’, which ended up being “a superior version to the original” in English, according to a statement from TelevisaUnivisión, owners of ViX.
“While Bela Lugosi filmed during the day, another cast and crew arrived at night to produce the film in Spanish, using the same set, costumes and a translated script. “Working from dusk to dawn,” the note says.
The cast also includes: Yare Santana, Sofia Niño de Rivera, AJ Vaage and Jason Alexander, the remembered George Costanza from the emblematic series ‘Seinfeld’ (1989-1998).
The series, which after the first two chapters released on October 4 will release a new one every Friday, is Eugenio Derbez’s return to Spanish-language comedy “after more than ten years”according to the note, and is also the first original comedy under the preferential access agreement between its producer, 3Pas Studios, and ViX.
Eugenio Derbez is one of the executive producers of the series, along with Ben Odell and Javier Williams, and also directed the first episode.
The next production of the Mexican Eugenio Derbez It represents a change of pace after starring in last year’s feature film ‘Radical’, which won an award at the Sundance Festival and in which Derbez plays a teacher who breaks away from conventions in an environment of insecurity and violence.
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