"...mmmm naw,...dats da day I clean fish"
Posted on 10/27/2018 3:29:02 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Showtime has given a pilot commitment to an untitled drama starring and executive produced by Golden Globe Award winner Gael García Bernal (Mozart In the Jungle) and created by Jonás Cuarón (Gravity).
Lie To Me creator Sam Baum will also serve as an executive producer, along with journalist and DACA recipient, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, whose upcoming book Undocumented America inspired the series. Brad Weston’s Makeready and Showtime will serve as studio co-production partners.
The as-of-yet untitled project centers on a Mexican-American family man living undocumented in the United States. When his wife is detained by ICE, desperate and resourceful undocumented immigrant Marco (Bernal) assumes the identity of an immigration officer to rescue her. The project is an emotional thriller about a man enmeshed in a dangerous double life; torn between his desire to help in any way possible and his family.
Weston, Pam Abdy, and Scott Nemes will serve as executive producers for Makeready.
Mexican-born Cuarón and Bernal previously collaborated on the 2015 feature thriller Desierto, which Cuarón wrote and directed and Bernal starred in as a Mexican migrant worker trying to cross the U.S. border illegally in search of a better life. Bernal also is attached to star in Cuarón’s planned Zorro reimagining Z.
This marks a return to U.S. TV series for Bernal following his Golden Globe-winning turn in Amazon’s Mozart In the Jungle. In features, Bernal, who burst into the international scene with the 2007 Babel, recently starred in the animated blockbuster hit Coco.
Makeready has been developing the series since May 2017, when it acquired the rights to Undocumented America following Cornejo Villavicencio’s Election Day essay in The New York Times on undocumented Americans and voting. Cornejo Villavicencio is an immigrant from Ecuador and a DREAMer who brings her personal experience as one of the first undocumented students admitted to Harvard’s undergraduate and Yale’s Ph.D. programs.
Cornejo Villavicencio is a fellowship writer for the Emerson Collective, Laurene Powell Jobs’ organization that centers its work on education, immigration reform, the environment, health, and other social justice initiatives and is dedicated to removing barriers to opportunity so people can live to their full potential. Her book, Undocumented America, will be published June 2019 by Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
Cuarón is probably best known for co-writing the Academy Award-winning film Gravity with his father Alfonso Cuarón, for which the pair received a BAFTA nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
In the 14 months since Weston launched Makeready as an independent studio and financier for film, television and branded content, the company has sold eight shows, including sci-fi drama series Old City Blues at Hulu, starring Kerry Washington, which has opened a mini-room with a four-script order.
Bernal is repped by WME, The Lede Company, and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush & Kaller. Cuarón is repped by UTA and Holmes Weinberg, PC. Cornejo Villavicencio is repped by Foundry Literary + Media.
Yeah, and they’ll continue until their shows are unsustainable.
I cancelled Showtime a few months ago. I really liked Ray Donavan but that show alone is not worth the cost of the whole package.
Heh, and we all KNOW what the scripts will be like.
So why watch?
yes. let’s glamourize illegals. nurse Jackie glamourized druggie medics and the other one glamourized cooking crack. Jump on the bandwagon. It gets around explaining to those who’ve waited years for legal migration why linejumpers are welcomed with open arms, or explaining to the American disadvantaged why there are less benefits, housing and job preference for them because the funding is rerounted and given to illegals - who, btw, all want to sue the country they’re invading on some frivolous complaint.
I can’t afford to pay for all the illegals as it is, so I just canceled Showtime to save money
"...mmmm naw,...dats da day I clean fish"
That settles it for me, Ballot Proposition:
We need an Entertainment TAX to Pay for their Slaves
All persons engaged in entertainment, including but not limited to, Performers, Actors, Actresses, Writers, Directors, Producers, executives, financiers, and any other person associated in any way with an Entertainment Venue of ANY kind, Shall have their Income Assessed Annually at whatever percentage necessary to pay for the Following:
All expenses for ANY Public Service, including but not limited to, Education, Healthcare, Housing, Food, Clothing, Transportation, of any and all Foreign Nationals residing in California without proper Legal Authorization to be present in the United States.
All US Citizens and Legal US Residents Shall be Entitled to Compensatory and Punitive damages from the same fund for any injury or loss sustained as a result of a Foreign National residing in California without proper Legal Authorization to be present in the United States.
Problem Solved
I’ve gone one further: All registered Democrats and/or Democrat voters will be assessed at a 100% income tax rate above the local minimum wage rate.
You want expensive and expansive big gubmint Socialism ? You get to pay for it.
That is a fantastic idea. This needs to happen.
Bernal played the loveable liberal rogue Ché Guevera in a heavily sanitized “The Motorcycle Diaries.”
There is More than enough clips of high pollutant hollywood jesters and entertainers praising Socialism and Illegals to make a lot of fun Campaign Commercials using their Own Words!!
Yawn. Not interested in seeing anything extolling the virtues of common criminals who spit on our national sovereignty. Illegal criminal invaders are just lawbreaking garbage, nothing whatsoever to try to raise sympathy for. If you want to live in the U.S., there are long-established pathways to accomplish this-—none of which include sneaking into our country as a 100% illiterate resource-sucking leech.
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