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 can land in 2025, is even higher nonetheless.
“When you have got success with a primary film, the second is usually not nearly as good, after which the third one even much less so,” the helmer tells Deadline. “On this case, persons are saying that the second is healthier than the primary, and everyone that has seen the third film says that it’s the better 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.
A technique the group prevented second album syndrome was to jot down the following films earlier than the primary one was out on this planet. González wrote and directed the primary movie after which teamed with Sofía Cuenca to pen the sequel and threequel. So every little thing has occurred at velocity.
Mercedes Ron’s ‘Culpables’ trilogy was a New York Instances bestseller. The Argentine-born Spanish writer’s work bought greater than three million copies and notched plus-100 million reads on Wattpad. The dimensions of the primary film’s success, nonetheless, bettered expectations.
In its opening weekend, Culpa Mía ranked amongst Prime Video’s high 10 titles in additional than 190 nations, together with the U.S., UK, Australia, India, Argentina, and France. It’s Prime Video’s high worldwide unique film so far. This comes amid a YA streamer increase that has seen Germany’s Maxton Corridor – The World Between Us break records for Prime Video.
Nicole Wallace on set: Credit score: Pokeepsie, Prime Video
“Sure, we anticipated to have that success in Spain, and I needed to have success overseas; I believed it was going to be massive in Mexico possibly, however not all world wide, in India, in Indonesia, Pakistan, Korea, all over the place. That was surprising,” 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 have been getting a director, however as González went deep into the supply materials, he ended up penning the screenplay.
“I noticed I used to be writing a script, not simply taking notes, so I instructed Carolina; ‘Hey, I have already got the script.’ They gave it to Amazon Prime, they usually stated: ‘That is excellent’.”
Culpa Nuestra is in submit and drops in 2025 with no launch date but confirmed. The Culpa Tuya premiere, in the meantime, simply befell within the Palacio Vistalegre Enviornment in Madrid in entrance of 4,000 individuals, lots of whom have 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 sequence. “It speaks about past love and emotions which can be common,” 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 individuals consider a YA film, they someday suppose that younger persons are silly. So, I needed to have one thing a bit extra intelligent. This can be a very intelligent era. I deal with them with respect.”
Gabriel Guevara on set: Credit score: Pokeepsie, Prime Video
The brand new movie sees the characters extra mature, and the challenges Noah and Nick face steadily develop into extra grown-up. With out 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 tough to do the script of this e-book, as a result of the followers didn’t need to see some issues,” he explains. “On the web and TikTok and our Instagram, they have been saying: ‘We don’t need to see that. Please, please, don’t present that.’
“So, we needed to take care of that a part of the story in one other manner. It’s much like the e-book, it’s not a lot completely different, however we did it in one other manner. I believe they will be pleased with that resolution. The principle factor is that I agreed with the issues they stated.”
With the second ‘Culpable’ film days away and one other touchdown subsequent 12 months, an Anglo model of Culpa Mia – My Fault: London – can also be in manufacturing.
Prime Video could 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 (Inform Me Softly), is already in manufacturing.
