Netflix will develop another Frida-Diego offering, this time as a streamed series

Netflix volition make a bid astir the beingness and narration of Mexican taste icons Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, arsenic portion of its strategy to grow contented successful Mexico.

According to a connection released by Netflix, the bid volition explore+ the couple’s intimate beingness arsenic good arsenic the taste and governmental discourse of their enactment during a clip of profound translation successful Mexico.

Mexican filmmakers Patricia Riggen and Gabriel Ripstein volition co-direct the Netflix bid connected Frida and Diego. (Netflix)

“The bid is the communicative of a weaponry wrapped successful silk; a weaponry that is the 2 of them, that is Mexico, and that is, inevitably, the full world,” the streaming institution said. 

With a rubric yet to beryllium decided, the communicative volition delve into the couple’s emotion and betrayals arsenic they make of their creator works successful a “context successful changeless effervescence,” Netflix said.

“[The series] follows the communicative of a pistillate who refuses to beryllium conscionable a muse and decides to archer her ain mentation of pain, and of a antheral struggling to prolong his originative genius successful the look of his contradictions,” Netflix said. 

The bid volition beryllium directed by Patricia Riggen and Gabriel Ripstein, filmmakers with acquisition successful stories based connected existent events and connected Latin American authorities and society.

This volition not beryllium the archetypal clip Kahlo’s communicative has been brought to the screen. In 2002, Salma Hayek Kahlo starred successful and produced a movie titled “Frida,” which was nominated for 4 Academy Awards, including a Best Actress information for Hayek (the grant went to Halle Berry that year)

Earlier, the Mexican manager Paull Leduc created a much creator and little commercialized movie astir Frida starring Ofelia Medina.

This clip around, however, Kahlo and Rivera’s beingness volition beryllium portrayed for the tiny screen.

“The information that it’s a bid and not a movie gives america a precise wide canvas to interruption distant from what everyone knows,” Riggen told paper El País. “We don’t privation to autumn into the trap of a stuffy play piece, a magical Mexico, oregon the obvious. That’s already been told.” 

Carolina Leconte, contented VP of Netflix Mexico, told Variety that the task is “a daring connection that takes america into the astir intimate spaces of 2 figures we consciousness person been exhausted by myth, but whose existent communicative we person not yet dared to look directly.”

With reports from Aninews