Fidelio Films has struck a development and co-production deal with Stories, the burgeoning film-TV arm of Spain-based publishing giant Editorial Planeta.
(...) First title up in Fidelio-Editorial Planeta deal is Fidelio partner Mauricio Leiva Cock’s movie adaptation of cult Colombian writer Andrés Caicedo’s unfinished novel “Noche sin Fortuna.” Also in the mix is a small screen makeover of “Persona Normal,” a Mexican and Latin American bestseller written by Mexico’s Benito Taibo.
Fidelio’s deal sees it parlaying the extraordinary recent writing and directing record of partners Leiva Cock and David Figueroa García into strategic alliances with companies eager to expand into the Spanish-language TV scene.
“Noche de Fortuna” is, likewise, an one-day urban road movie about a teen’s going to a girl’s quinceañera 15th birthday party who ends up in the hands of his best friend’s cannibal girl-friend.
“Persona Normal” has sold 200,000 copies in Mexico, where it has gone through 25 editions. Its drama series adaptation is being led by Leiva Cock and Colombian-Swiss writer Lony Welter, a rising screenwriter at Fidelio. A coming of age tale set in Mexico City, it turns on a teen who, after the death of his parents, goes to live with his uncle, who’s the black sheep of the family but helps him, through the literature his uncle loves so much, to come to terms with his grief (...)
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