U.S. HISPANIC
Telemundo: Betty in NY is the first fiction produced in the Telemundo Center studios
Maribel Ramos-Weiner| 27 de noviembre de 2018
Claquetazo Betty En NY Telemundo
Telemundo began shooting Betty in NY, the group’s first fiction produced in the Telemundo Center studios.
“I cannot think of a better production than Betty in NY to launch this new stage of NBCU and Telemundo,” said enthusiastically César Conde, Chairman of NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises and NBCUniversal International Group during the start of the production, held in the Telemundo Center studios.
This production, shot in exteriors in New York and Miami, has a multicultural cast, led by the stars, emerging Mexican talents Elyfer Torres (Betty) and Erik Elías, and is under the executive production of Miguel Varoni. Fez Noriega, Luis Manzo and the Mexican Gustavo Loza (from Adicta Films) are the directors.
“Betty is one of those blessings the industry brings us, the opportunity to produce an intelligent, timely script that was made many years ago, but hadn’t had a Latino version, a version we adapted for the US Hispanic market. It is a fascinating production with an amazing cast, which had a development process that took more than a year and a half of hard work. It was made with film techniques, and is produced in 4K,” explained Marcos Santana, president of Telemundo Global Studios. He thanked the author of the original story, Fernando Gaitán, who served as an adviser in the Hispanic version, in which Sandra Velasco, Alejandro Vergara, and Valentina Párraga were the writers in charge of the adaptation.
Only to find the protagonist, Elyfer Torres, around 298 auditions were conducted in the US, Latin America, and Europe.
