The Beautiful Lie gets Spanish-language adaptation
Filming of new version of 2015 ABC drama is scheduled to begin in Mexico early next year.
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2015 ABC drama The Beautiful Lie is getting an adaptation for Spanish-language Pantaya in the US.
The Endemol Shine drama, which was itself a modern day adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina, starred Sarah Snook, Rodger Corser, Sophie Lowe, Benedict Samuel, Gina Riley, Celia Pacquola and Dan Wyllie.
In the new Spanish-language version, Kate del Castillo (La Reina del Sur), plays a gold medal-winning Olympic diver and Mexican national hero, who falls in love with a young musician and goes on a journey of self-discovery.
Del Castillo’s Cholawood Productions has an overall production deal with Mexico City-based Endemol Shine Boomdog.
Filming is scheduled to begin in Mexico early next year.
The Australian series, produced by John Edwards and Imogen Banks, was written by Alice Bell and Jonathan Gavin.
Source: C21
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I rewatched this again last year and really enjoyed it, again.
Great validation for the team who made it, however I remember thinking how cold and distant the characters on this show were.
You mean like they were lifted from the pages of a 19th Century Russian novel by Tolstoy?
Interesting to see how the intellectual property market will trade a work based on prior art, whose copy right expired over 40 years ago, then change it so it bares even less resemblance to what they bought. If the idea of doing a version of an old story in a new setting is a copyrightable thing, then then there are an awful lot of Star Trek episodes in trouble.