Again in collaboration with Netflix, the prolific Mexican filmmaker Manolo Caro (The immoral life of the ideal couple) is about to start filming a novel feature film. will bear by title Party at the Burrow and will feature the famous tenoch orchard in a stellar role, this being the first time that the 42-year-old actor has been directed by the Jalisco filmmaker.
Party at the Burrow it will be based on the homonymous novel by the Mexican writer Juan Pablo Villalobos; book that marked his literary debut and was originally published in 2010 through Anagrama publishing house. It has also been translated into English, under the title Down the Rabbit Hole.
The upcoming film adaptation is written by Nicholas Giacobonewinner of the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay in 2015 —along with Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Alexander Dinelaris Jr. and Armando Bo— thanks to their work on Birdman (or the unexpected virtue of ignorance).
«It tells the story of Tochtli, a boy who likes hats, dictionaries, samurai, guillotines and the French. And now what he wants is a new animal for his private zoo: a dwarf hippo from Namibia. His father, Yolcaut, is willing to fulfill all his whims. It does not matter that it is an exotic animal in danger of extinction. Because Yolcaut can always”, dictates an official synopsis of Party at the Burrow.
The project will begin filming on June 15, 2023, with a view to placing the production in Guadalajara, Jalisco, and in Katima Mulilo, a city in the African country Namibia. Together with Tenoch Huerta, the cast of Party at the Burrow He is complemented by Raúl Briones, Teresa Ruiz, Alfredo Gatica, Mercedes Hernández, Pierre Louis, Lizeth Selene, Debi Mazar and Daniel Giménez Cacho.
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In complicity with Netflix, Manolo Caro previously conceived the hit show the house of flowersmade up of three seasons released between 2018 and 2020. After signing an exclusivity agreement with the red “N” in 2019, Caro has also made The House of Flowers: The Movie and the television series someone has to die, Once upon a time… but not anymore and Sacred Family.
For his part, Tenoch Huerta has just achieved worldwide fame thanks to his incorporation into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022), the actor born in Ecatepec played the antagonistic Namor, boss of the Talocan underwater kingdom. In addition, we will see Huerta soon as Juan Preciado on the tape Pedro Paramo; that is to say, Rodrigo Prieto’s first film, based on the emblematic novel by Juan Rulfo.
Party at the Burrow It will premiere on Netflix sometime in 2024.
Antonio G. Spindola I have very bad memory. Out of solidarity with my memories, I choose to lose myself too. Preferably in a movie theater.