The feature is shooting on different locations throughout the country over the next few months. Beseeched by his dying mother to locate his father, Pedro Paramo, whom they fled from years ago, Juan Preciado sets out for Comala.

Jacques are in charge of production design, Anna Terrazas of costume design and Gustavo Santaolalla will compose the score. Stacy Perskie, whose Redrum production label is making Bandidos alongside Wonder Street, is attached to Pedro Páramo as producer along with Rafael Ley from Woo Films. Earlier this month, we told you the streamer was making heist drama series Bandidos out of the country. Netflix has been upping its investment in Mexican originals. We want Mexico to be seen and be felt with Pedro Páramo.” “We are proud to take on this challenge, hand in hand with one of Mexico’s most talented and universally renowned artists, Rodrigo Prieto, who will direct Mateo Gil’s excellent script. “Our commitment to Mexican cinema takes on a whole new dimension with the start of production of Pedro Páramo, the adaptation of Juan Rulfo’s seminal work,” said Francisco Ramos, VP of Latin American Content at Netflix. Rulfo’s original novel follows a man who attempts to meet his father for the first time after his mother’s death, only to find a ghost town filled with spectral figures and discovers the reckless and dangerous choices his dad made during his life. (Sept.Amazon Prime Video Razzes Netflix On Twitter For Password Sharing Crackdown Peden's lucid translation does justice to a tale that is firmly rooted in its own culture yet so fundamentally human in its focus that it speaks across cultural borders.

Yet the thing he wanted most-the love of Susana San Juan-remained forever out of reach as Susana, desolated by the loss of her first husband, retreated into madness and then into death. Commingling past and present, obliterating the boundary between life and death (spirits walk the earth and corpses converse in their graves), the story depicts this small town ``at the very mouth of hell'' and Pedro, a man whom one local resident describes as ``living bile.'' An autocratic and amoral patron, Pedro resorted to deception, thievery and murder to get what he wanted.

His mother's words lead Juan to expect a ``beautiful view of a green plain,'' but instead he finds a ghost town and learns that Pedro is already dead. The opening of this brief yet complex work is deceptively simple: Juan Preciado has promised his dying mother that he will visit Comala, her hometown, and search for his father, Pedro Paramo. First published in Mexico in 1955, Rulfo's ( The Burning Plain and Other Stories ) only novelpk is a modern classic.

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