HBO Max shows a preview of its first original series in Spain at the San Sebastian Festival

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A little over a month after his expected arrival in Spain, HBO Max proudly displayed its first letters during an event at the 69th edition of the San Sebastian Festival. The presentation led by Miguel Salvat, responsible for the original productions of the HBO brand for Spain, has shown unpublished materials from Garcia!, No novelty, Come on Juan, in addition to new images of Everything else, its first original premiere when HBO Max landed in our country on October 26.

‘Garcia!’

Salvat has celebrated the ambition of Garcia!, a multi-genre series that promises to be the platform’s winning horse in its first year on the air. Generally speaking in economic terms when talking about ambition, but the manager sees it differently: “the series has an ambition to go where it has never been before in SpainThe promising first trailer for the series, the only one currently unavailable to the dismay of thousands of graphic novel fans, shows one of those ambitious assets: the series is shot in two formats to recreate the past and present of Spain, a formal bet that gets closer with the passage of the episodes when the hero protagonist realizes the evolution that the country has lived while he was frozen.

Representing the long-awaited adaptation of the original work of Santiago Garcia and Luis Bustos its executive producers have been, Sara Antuña and Carlos de Pando (Responsable of The neighbor for Netflix), and the director Eugenio Mira, fresh from the intense filming of this production of Zeta Studios. Antuña has compared the sensation of adapting the comic to what he imagined more than 20 years ago when the films of The Lord of the rings. “It is amazing to be able to think about how to adapt a story that on paper seems wonderful to you and that now you can change the format.”

Mira entered the universe of Garcia! It was not through the scripts of Sara and Carlos, not the two comics they had published when production began (the third volume of the series was released in 2020). After a first pitch who made his interest in the project clear to him, the director of Grand Piano he discovered that “what really interested me is the heart, to be able to talk about Spain from an adventure, genre, thriller, comedy and, above all, mystery point of view. I think intrigue is the key to this series. “Where he never wants to enter production, they insist is the terrain of parody.

Its managers have also highlighted how, during the production of Garcia!, the country itself was veering towards the polarization that was portrayed in its adventures. Carlos de Pando ended the presentation by underlining the need to clarify the particularity of the Spanish character and the importance of making believe that everything we see could really happen despite the fact that we generally never see these types of stories set here. The first trailer for the series to hit HBO Max in 2022 has left wanting more.

‘Everything else’

Everything else | Official trailer | HBO Max

The first of the fiction premieres to be released will be Everything else, a comedy starring, directed and written by April Zamora (cocreadora de Ladies of the (h) ampa and actress in Vis a vis) Inspired by her experiences in Madrid with her friends.“I have felt very free as an author. HBO insisted that I tell it my way. It will be better or worse, but I have told the story with the tone that I wanted, with the team that I wanted and with the actors that I wanted. It is not autobiographical, but while I was preparing it I realized that it had many parallels with my own life. I think that, above all, the result is honest, “explained Zamora.

Many of the friends who have given rise to these plots work on the series itself, in front of and behind the cameras. Juan Blanco, present at the Zinemaldia, highlighted how “incredible it has been to shoot a series for HBO with a person you have known and loved for eight or nine years.” The actor wanted to clarify that “the dynamics that you see between the characters are not the dynamics that exist in real lifeBut the love with which you look at people and the trust between them is. That allows you to work with a calm that is very difficult to find and that, from what I have been able to see, is transferred to the screen “.

Everything else It will be the first Spanish fiction created alone and starring a trans artist. That, however, will hardly be directly addressed in the HBO comedy Max. “The protagonist is a trans girl. For me that was important because I am part of the LGTB collective, but our integration consists of not putting LGTB characters against more LGTB characters. We wanted to take a leap further, also in matters such as sex and drugs . I hope and wish that people see that we have a particular point of view, without wanting to sound pretentious or anything. “

Zamora has one last wish when people watch the series: that his viewers discover the Madrid that he feels is his own and that he has wanted to represent in a way that he had not seen before in fiction. On October 26 we will check the results.

‘No news’

No news | Teaser trailer | HBO Max

The latest from HBO Max, No noveltyNor did he want to miss the launch of the platform in San Sebastián. Arturo Valls, Toni Acosta, Carlos Areces, Pilar Castro, Adriana Torrebejano and Omar Banana, the entire cast of this adaptation of a popular Australian format, have accompanied the person in charge of advancing the keys to comedy, the executive producer Clara Nieto (At home).

“From a production point of view we had to make a treatise on humor, find out what was funny to us”. In the first steps of the adaptation they realized that they had to give more space to their leading actors. “We need actors who are capable of interpreting and improvisingWe wanted strong couples who represented a variety in the sense of humor. “

The trailer for No novelty focuses on the most spectacular part of the production, but in the presentation they insisted that it is also a series that talks about couples and people who are together for a long time while they wait for other things to happen.

Valls and Areces (old acquaintances and collaborators who have joked about how horrible it has been to work together again); Torrebejano and Castro (two actresses who did not know each other and have celebrated the opportunity to discover each other while their characters did the same); and Acosta and Banana (the thief character will show a hidden and much more rogue side of the protagonist of Ladies of the (h) ampa, something that made one of the great revelations of Spanish audiovisuals in the last year laugh constantly) form the three comic couples on which the comedy of Warner Bros.

‘Come on, Juan’

Come on Juan | Teaser trailer | HBO Max

The only one of the premieres that we already know from before is Come on Juan, the continuation of the story of the corrupt politician who has already played Javier Chamber on Vote Juan and Let’s Go Juan. The actor has been in San Sebastián with Diego San Jose, the showrunner of comedy that has shown us the roughest and most recognizable face of our fiction.

“I believe that Spanish corruption is world heritage because it is different from all the others. Journalism has managed to make us discover a crap in recent years where comedy has a wonderful breeding ground “, explains one of the great names of humor in Spain. To the screenwriter and his team he was interested in the small details that the media does not have access to When they uncover corruption cases, from the moment they have the politicians they have to choose the jacket with which they are going to be arrested (it cannot be too expensive, because it would make it clear that it is guilty, nor too cheap, because it would jump the alarms of the judge) or how is that conversation that the corrupt person has with his family confessing what he has done.

In the new episodes Juan Carrasco debuts hair (after the trip to Turkey that we saw in the second season of the original series of TNT) and job title: now he is the director of an energy company thanks to the revolving doors.

The Cámara himself has also tried a new field of work by directing two of the comedy comeback episodes. “It has been an amazing experience that I recommend to all my colleagues. Suddenly you get behind and not only discover production problems, which there are many, is that now that I believe that editing should be taught in acting classes. It has been a vital experience for me. ”

‘Todo lo otro’ will arrive in Spain on October 26, the same day of the launch of HBO Max. ‘García!’, ‘No news’ and ‘Come on, Juan’ have no date at the moment.

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