Venezuelan helmer-scribe Ignacio Castillo Cottin, who has signed with Hollywood talent agency Apa, is prepping his first English-language film, “The Death of Marquez.” Budgeted for up to $10 million, it’s an ambitious leap from his previous film, “El Inca,” made for an estimated $1 million, which repped Venezuela at this year’s foreign-language Oscar race
The dramedy takes place mostly in Paris, and will include some French, Spanish and Italian as it includes scenes in Rome, Morocco and a South American country, said Castillo. Apa is packaging the feature film for Castillo who is in Los Angeles to meet with potential studio partners and cast.
“The Death of Marquez” turns on a writer in his mid-thirties who chances upon strange characters, finds romance with a gorgeous French woman and the plot for his next novel, all while investigating the mysterious death of his friend, Marquez.
The film “is not an exercise in morality,...
The dramedy takes place mostly in Paris, and will include some French, Spanish and Italian as it includes scenes in Rome, Morocco and a South American country, said Castillo. Apa is packaging the feature film for Castillo who is in Los Angeles to meet with potential studio partners and cast.
“The Death of Marquez” turns on a writer in his mid-thirties who chances upon strange characters, finds romance with a gorgeous French woman and the plot for his next novel, all while investigating the mysterious death of his friend, Marquez.
The film “is not an exercise in morality,...
- 4/12/2018
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
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