Gael García Bernal & Diego Luna To Star In Searchlight TV’s Spanish-Language Boxing Limited Series ‘La Máquina’ For Hulu
Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna are teaming up for a Spanish-language boxing series for Hulu.
The pair, who first worked together on Y Tu Mamá También, will star and produce La Máquina for the streamer.
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The series is produced by Searchlight TV, the Disney-owned television arm of Searchlight Pictures and marks its third series for the streamer following The Dropout and History of the World, Part II.
Daredevil’s Marco Ramirez will serve as showrunner and 600 Miles’ Gabriel Ripstein will direct. García Bernal and Luna will produce under their La Corriente del Golfo banner along with Gerardo Gatica, Leandro Halperin and Adam Fishbach.
La Máquina follows an aging boxer, played by García Bernal, whose crafty manager, played by Luna, secures him one last shot at a title. But to make it to fight night, they must navigate a mysterious underworld force.
“We are proud to partner again with Searchlight Television on this forthcoming Hulu Original. Gael, Diego and Marco are world class storytellers and we look forward to bringing audiences their story and experiencing alongside them this last shot their characters get together,” said Craig Erwich, President, Hulu Originals and ABC Entertainment.
“It is a real honor to unite Gael and Diego onscreen again for La Máquina, their friendship and chemistry is a joy to experience,” added Searchlight Presidents Matthew Greenfield and David Greenbaum. “And we’re delighted to be working with Marco, whose unique voice and vision allows us to explore this world in a wholly original way.”
García Bernal recently starred in M. Night Shyamalan’s Old and HBO Max’s Station Eleven, while Luna was one of the voices in animated film DC League of Super Pets alongside Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart and stars in the upcoming Disney+ Star Wars series Andor.
Bernal is represented by WME and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox. Luna is represented by WME and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum Matlof + Fishman. Ramirez is represented by UTA, Ripstein by Rand Holston Management, M88 and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum Matlof + Fishman, and Bernal and Luna’s La Corriente del Golfo by WME.
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