EXCLUSIVE: Culpa Tuya (Your Fault) premieres on Prime Video on Dec. 27 and writer-director Domingo González guarantees it’s a step up from the hit first movie, Culpa Mía (My Fault). The excellent news for followers of the YA franchise is he claims the third instalment, Culpa Nuestra (Our Fault), which is able to land in 2025, is even higher nonetheless.
“When you will have success with a primary film, the second is usually not pretty much as good, after which the third one even much less so,” the helmer tells Deadline. “On this case, individuals are saying that the second is healthier than the primary, and everyone that has seen the third film says that it’s the better of the three.”
The movies are produced by Pokeepsie Movies, a part of Banijay Iberia, and Amazon MGM Studios. It stars Nicole Wallace as Noah and Gabriel Guevara as Nick and traces their relationship.
A method the group prevented second album syndrome was to write down the next films earlier than the primary one was out on the earth. González wrote and directed the primary movie after which teamed with Sofía Cuenca to pen the sequel and threequel. So every little thing has occurred at pace.
Mercedes Ron’s ‘Culpables’ trilogy was a New York Instances bestseller. The Argentine-born Spanish writer’s work offered greater than three million copies and notched plus-100 million reads on Wattpad. The size of the primary film’s success, nevertheless, bettered expectations.
In its opening weekend, Culpa Mía ranked amongst Prime Video’s prime 10 titles in additional than 190 nations, together with the U.S., UK, Australia, India, Argentina, and France. It’s Prime Video’s prime worldwide authentic film thus far. This comes amid a YA streamer growth that has seen Germany’s Maxton Corridor – The World Between Us break information for Prime Video.
Nicole Wallace on set: Credit score: Pokeepsie, Prime Video
“Sure, we anticipated to have that success in Spain, and I needed to have success overseas; I believed it was going to be huge in Mexico perhaps, however not all all over the world, in India, in Indonesia, Pakistan, Korea, all over the place. That was sudden,” González says.
He was referred to as in after Pokeepsie principals and producers of the movies, Álex de la Iglesia and Carolina Bang, had optioned the books. They thought they had been getting a director, however as González went deep into the supply materials, he ended up penning the screenplay.
“I noticed I used to be writing a script, not simply taking notes, so I instructed Carolina; ‘Hey, I have already got the script.’ They gave it to Amazon Prime, they usually stated: ‘That is good’.”
Culpa Nuestra is in put up and drops in 2025 with no launch date but confirmed. The Culpa Tuya premiere, in the meantime, simply passed off within the Palacio Vistalegre Area in Madrid in entrance of 4,000 individuals, lots of whom had been followers and influencers. It’s protected to say the fandom is robust with this franchise.
Gonzalez says his diversifications intensify the humor whereas amping up the motion from the ebook sequence. “It speaks about past love and emotions which might be common,” he says. “And I needed to have humor, they needed to be enjoyable, and humorous. I additionally needed the dialog to be a little bit a little bit extra grownup.
“When individuals consider a YA film, they someday suppose that younger individuals are silly. So, I needed to have one thing a little bit extra intelligent. It is a very intelligent technology. I deal with them with respect.”
Gabriel Guevara on set: Credit score: Pokeepsie, Prime Video
The brand new movie sees the characters extra mature, and the challenges Noah and Nick face steadily grow to be extra grown-up. With out heading into spoiler territory, there are components of the second ebook that chunks of the fanbase took in opposition to. González says that performed into how he and Cuenca approached the Culpa Tuya screenplay.
“It was very tough to do the script of this ebook, as a result of the followers didn’t wish to see some issues,” he explains. “On the web and TikTok and our Instagram, they had been saying: ‘We don’t wish to see that. Please, please, don’t present that.’
“So, we needed to cope with that a part of the story in one other approach. It’s just like the ebook, it’s not a lot completely different, however we did it in one other approach. I believe they’ll be proud of that resolution. The primary factor is that I agreed with the issues they stated.”
With the second ‘Culpable’ film days away and one other touchdown subsequent yr, an Anglo model of Culpa Mia – My Fault: London – can also be in manufacturing.
Prime Video may be very a lot within the Ron enterprise elsewhere too. An adaptation of the primary ebook of a brand new saga by the writer, Dímelo Bajito (Inform Me Softly), is already in manufacturing.