Pitipol Ibarra produces and directs Érase Una Vez for Televisa
Televisa launched on Monday, October 2 at 10:30pm on Canal 5, the production Érase Una Vez in a thriller format, based on classical stories but adapted to specific situations in Mexico City.
“The scripts are Argentinean, some were made in Argentina and others in Spain, the intention was to tropicalize everything to Mexico, which was Luis Felipe Ibarra´s job. In this Project, eight directors are involved, including me, who directed 5 stories, narrated in a current and real tone, with specific situations,” commented Pitipol Ibarra, director, and producer of the series, who clarified that it has nothing to do at all with the US story Once Upon a Time.
A year of production, including three months of shooting, was the time this production required. Ibarra assured having achieved a different style for each episode, “with wealth, trips and eight proposals with languages and storytelling that differed in each episode, adapted to each story and with their own problems. That was the great challenge.”
He highlighted that in stories like Caperucita Roja (Little Red Riding Hood), the wolf would be a serial killer; whereas in La Bella Y La Bestia (Beauty and the Beast), beauty worked in a publishing house, and the beast is a writer who results disfigured after an accident, and Los Tres Cochinitos (Three Little Pigs) three assailants.
To end, he explained that this production arrives at a timely moment to open TV to conquer audiences that nowadays consume content of this sort on digital platforms.
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