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 have success with a first movie, the second one is often not as good, and then the third one even less so,” the helmer tells Deadline. “In this case, people are saying that the second one is better than the first, and everybody that has seen the third movie says that it is the best of the three.”
The movies are produced by Pokeepsie Films, a part of Banijay Iberia, and Amazon MGM Studios. It stars Nicole Wallace as Noah and Gabriel Guevara as Nick and traces their relationship.
One means the staff prevented second album syndrome was to put in writing the following films earlier than the primary one was out on the planet. González wrote and directed the primary movie after which teamed with Sofía Cuenca to pen the sequel and threequel. So all the pieces has occurred at velocity.
Mercedes Ron’s ‘Culpables’ trilogy was a New York Times bestseller. The Argentine-born Spanish writer’s work bought greater than three million copies and notched plus-100 million reads on Wattpad. The scale 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 is Prime Video’s prime worldwide unique film to this point. This comes amid a YA streamer increase that has seen Germany’s Maxton Hall – The World Between Us break data for Prime Video.
Nicole Wallace on set: Credit: Pokeepsie, Prime Video
“Yes, we expected to have that success in Spain, and I wanted to have success abroad; I thought it was going to be big in Mexico maybe, but not all around the world, in India, in Indonesia, Pakistan, Korea, everywhere. That was unexpected,” González says.
He was known 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 realized I was writing a script, not just taking notes, so I told Carolina; ‘Hey, I already have the script.’ They gave it to Amazon Prime, and they said: ‘This is perfect’.”
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 Arena in Madrid in entrance of 4,000 folks, lots of whom had been followers and influencers. It’s secure to say the fandom is robust with this franchise.
Gonzalez says his variations intensify the humor whereas amping up the motion from the e book collection. “It speaks about first love and feelings that are universal,” he says. “And I needed to have humor, they needed to be enjoyable, and humorous. I additionally needed the dialog to be a bit a bit extra grownup.
“When people think of a YA movie, they sometime think that young people are stupid. So, I wanted to have something a little more clever. This is a very clever generation. I treat them with respect.”
Gabriel Guevara on set: Credit: Pokeepsie, Prime Video
The new movie sees the characters extra mature, and the challenges Noah and Nick face steadily develop into extra grown-up. Without heading into spoiler territory, there are elements of the second e book 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 difficult to do the script of this book, because the fans didn’t want to see some things,” he explains. “On the web and TikTok and our Instagram, they had been saying: ‘We don’t need to see that. Please, please, don’t present that.’
“So, we had to deal with that part of the story in another way. It’s similar to the book, it’s not much different, but we did it in another way. I think they are going to be happy with that solution. The main thing is that I agreed with the things they said.”
With the second ‘Culpable’ film days away and one other touchdown subsequent 12 months, an Anglo model of Culpa Mia – My Fault: London – can be in manufacturing.
Prime Video may be very a lot within the Ron enterprise elsewhere too. An adaptation of the primary e book of a brand new saga by the writer, Dímelo Bajito (Tell Me Softly), is already in manufacturing.