the usurper, one of the most successful soap operas of the 90s in our country starring Gaby Spanic and Fernando Colunga, will have a new version that perhaps few can imagine. It is a musical film format adaptation entitled The Usurper: The Musical. What you should know:
The different versions of the usurper
the usurper It has its origins in the 1971 Venezuelan telenovela of the same name. Televisa made an initial adaptation of the title The house I stole (1981), produced by Valentín Pimstein, starring Angélica María and Juan Ferrara. Subsequently, the Mexican TV channel made the second and most famous version the usurper with Gaby Spanic and Fernando Colunga. Until 2012 presented Univisión Who are you?, starring Laura Carmine and Julian Gil. And in 2019, Televisa returned with another version with Sandra Echeverría and Andrés Palacios.
The film version’s story begins with the premise we’re all familiar with by now: two twin sisters separated at birth who never met: one poor but very good person and the other rich, conspiratorial and very bad person. In this case, a chance encounter in Las Vegas brings them together, and before long their lives are hopelessly intertwined.
Cast and production team
The protagonists of this iteration will be Isabella Castillo (The Lord of the Air, Malverde: The Patron Saint), who plays Valeria and Victoria, twin sisters who couldn’t be more different, and allan estrada (Do you know Tomás, I can’t get up today) as her romantic interest, Carlos Daniel.
The cast will also be there Suzanne Zabaleta (Sex, modesty and tears), Jesus Ochoa (What is the child’s fault?), Cecilia Toussaint (dear neighborhood), valentines day (Rupaul’s Drag Race; To rent) And Alejandra Law (beat the past). In addition to the special participation of Alejandra Guzman (The key game) And Shane West, the protagonist of A love to remember (2002), opposite Mandy Moore.
The film, under the Pantelion Films label and production company The Lift Entertainment, was directed by Santiago Lemon (Cindy the Royal, rebel), who also co-wrote the screenplay Maria Hinojos (Mirreyes vs. Godinez). Also of note is the name of the award-winning music producer Sebastian Kris, Winner of 8 Grammy Awards and 12 Latin Grammy Awards; the choreographer Priscilla Hernandez, creative behind the Day of the Dead parade in 007: Ghost; and the producer Matt Waldenformer executive at Columbia Pictures, Fox and Arista Records who oversaw music for Waiting for the exhale And Romeo + Juliet and was part of the album’s creative team supernaturalby Santana.
The musical curatorship of this version includes 15 of the greatest hits of Latin American music of the time, such as “Life’s a Carnival”, “My Country”, “Give Me Another Tequila”, “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom“, “Livin’ La Vida Loca”, “Come Back”, “With heels“, “things of love” And “NO Love me“. The film will have dialogue and music in Spanish and English.
When is the film coming out the usurper?
the usurper will arrive April 12, 2023 in Mexican cinemas.
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