A long-developing comics series starring Diego Boneta has actually discovered a home at Amazon’s Prime Video clip.
The technology titan’s streaming solution has actually gotten El Gato, based upon the comic El Gato by Richard Dominguez. Boneta (Luis Miguel: The Series, the 2022 Dad of the Bride-to-be) will certainly play the title personality in the thriller, a guy that locates himself at the facility of a huge conspiracy theory when he finds his papa was a 1970s vigilante,“El Gato.”
The job was at first established at Apple television+ greater than 4 years back, with Boneta affixed. At the time, Robert Rodriguez was in line to straight and executive fruit and vegetables, yet he’s no more included. El Gato originates from Amazon MGM Studios– MGM lagged the program prior to Amazon obtained it– and designer Eric Carrasco (Structure, Supergirl, Netflix’s upcoming Golden of the Gods), that will certainly exec generate and function as co-showrunner together with Turi Meyer & & Alfredo Septién ( Stargirl, Smallville). Carrasco has actually likewise belonged to the job considering that its very early days.
Boneta, whose 3 Amigos banner has a total handle Prime Video clip, is likewise a director manufacturer.
“Sharing El Gato with audiences around the world is a dream come true,” Boneta stated in a declaration. “This has been a passion of mine since I started Three Amigos. Eric Carrasco and the entire team have built a character and universe that honors the super hero genre and still feels completely epic and original. It is an absolute honor to play Frank and produce this with my amazing partners at Amazon, MGM, and all other producers on this epic story.”
The program’s summary reviews, “Frank returns home to Mexico after the death of his father and finds himself neck deep in a nest of vipers — his estranged family — who are vying for control of his father’s business empire. But Frank’s grief is interrupted when he learns his only inheritance, a seemingly worthless parcel of land on the border, sits atop the lair of a famous costumed vigilante. His father was ‘El Gato. Now, Frank is in the crosshairs. To survive, he’ll have to solve mysteries decades in the making and unravel the truth about his father’s connections to a modern-day terror plot.”
“This is a pulp thriller, it’s a family drama, it’s everything I love about spies and masks and secret identities,” stated Carrasco.“A lot of us on this team — Diego, and Andrew Mittman, and Steve Stark, and Carla Gonzalez Vargas, and I — have been at this for a long time now, and it’s a genuine thrill to finally make the show with MGM Television and Prime Video.”
El Gato’s exec manufacturers are Carrasco, Boneta, Meyer, Septién, Steve Stark of Toluca Photo, Andrew Mittman of 1.21, and Carla Gonzalez Vargas. Kai Dolbashian, Marilu G. Carranza and Joel Novoa-Schneider are co-EPs.
