Gina Rodriguez To Star As Carmen Sandiego In Netflix Live-Action Feature
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EXCLUSIVE:Netflix has acquired the live-action feature film rights toCarmen Sandiego and has attachedGina Rodriguez to star as the title character. Rodriguez, who won a Golden Globe forJane the Virgin and continues to play the character, began her transfer to feature star with the Alex Garland-directedAnnihilation and continues with the remake of the thrillerMiss Bala that Sony Pictures releases January 25. She will produceCarmen Sandiego through her I Can and I Will productions alongside Kevin Misher and Caroline Fraser who will also produce. Misher’s Misher Films producedMiss Bala.
Andy Berman of Misher films is exec producer.
This is an extension of the brand as Netflix last year announceda new Carmen Sandiego animated series for 2019 with Rodriguez voicing the title character. Publisher and learning company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is the owner of the Carmen Sandiego property. Caroline Fraser is head of HMH Productions and is the executive producer of the Carmen Sandiego Netflix original series and feature film. A line of books from HMH featuring Carmen will launch in 2019 timed to the series release.
The movie will be a standalone Carmen adventure that will embrace the beloved ’90s property. No writer or director is yet attached to the movie. Rodriguez also voiced a lead role in the upcoming Warner Bros. animated film Small Foot. Catherine Hardwicke directedMiss Bala, the remake of the festival award-winning Mexican pic about a beauty pageant contestant who witnesses the brutality of a drug gang and is dragged into its dangerous business.
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CAA and attorney Karl Austen rep Rodriguez.
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5 Comments
- Ac
They need to have the rockapella theme, that is the most iconic part of that franchise. That and the chief but she is no longer with us sadly.
- Rob Buckley
Looks Like I’ll Need Netflix For A Month
- Anonymous
You are missing out! We have local and apps only. Haven’t had cable for the longest time!
- Pentatonix should do the theme song
Just like Rockapella did the original.
- Anonymous
I’ve actually been waiting for this to happen, 8D what with so many childhood classics being revived and all. I felt like she was definitely an intriguing character worth returning in some shape or form.
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