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It Makes Complete Sense Deciding to remake one of the most popular series of recent times can only mean one thing: ambition. Sony Picture Television’s Angélica Guerra explains they are working with creator Vince Gilligan on the ‘Breaking Bad’ adaptation, assures that casting was “challenging” and says the new script was “written to be shot in Colombia.” By Sebastián Torterola Twitter: @storterola storterola@todotv.tv
Metástasis Behind the Scenes
“One of the biggest challenges is striking the right balance to make sure your series is both true to the original but also relevant with your audience.”
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“In reading the initial scripts, we quickly recognized that ‘Metástasis’ felt like it was written to be shot in Colombia.”
‘Metástasis’ is expected to replicate the whole five seasons of ‘Breaking Bad’ in Spanish, and it aims to catch the Hispanic public that still hasn’t watched the series. It’s set to air in 2014 and the adaptation is already sold in territories like Puerto Rico, Bolivia, Panama, Ecuador, Colombia and Mexico, among others.
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s it was revealed a couple of months ago, Sony Pictures Television (SPT) and its Colombian production company Teleset are producing a remake of US hit ‘Breaking Bad’ for Latin American and US Hispanic audiences. The new version will be called ‘Metástasis’, and it’s the first adaptation of the award-winning series. The series will air on Colombia’s RCN Televisión and on Univision’s cable network UniMas in the US, whereas it’s been said that the show has been cleared in most major Spanish speaking markets. Based on the popular drama that’s now entering the second half of its fifth and final season in the US, ‘Metástasis’ follows the story
of an unassuming chemistry teacher who is given a fatal diagnosis and enters a world of drugs and crime, where he ascends to power. To find out more about the characteristics of the project and how the production is going, ttv spoke to Angélica Guerra, SVP & Managing Director, Production for Latin America/US Hispanic, SPT, who affirmed the adaptation “made complete sense” for the company, and that one of the biggest challenges is “striking the right balance to make sure your series is both true to the original but also relevant with your audience.” What took SPT to adapt hit series ‘Breaking Bad’ for the Latin American market? As a leader of content creation around the world, SPT has a deep library of movies and TV