‘El Encargado’ Star Guillermo Francella and Writer-Directors Mariano Cohn, Gaston Duprat Re-Team for ‘Homo Argentum’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comJohn Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Argentina’s Guillermo Francella and writer-directors Mariano Cohn and Gaston Duprat, star and creators of Disney+/Star+ smash hit “El Encargado” (Hulu’s “The Boss”), are re-teaming on “Homo Argentum,” an around 10-episode movie anthology, skewering the frustrations, paranoia and bloodymindedness seething below the surface of modern-day life.
Arguably Argentina’s biggest star alongside Ricardo Darín, Francella demonstrated his acting chops in a bravado turn in Juan José Campanella’s Oscar winning “The Secret of Their Eyes” before starring in Pablo Trapero’s “The Clan,” one of Argentina’s biggest movie exports in the last decade, grossing $20.4 million worldwide.
Cohn and Duprat has consolidated as one of Argentina’s foremost filmmaking forces, with an ever larger international reach, directing Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas in “Official Competition” and Robert De Niro in Argentine TV series “Nada.” “Homo Argentum” is set up at Buenos Aires-based powerhouse Pampa Films, behind “Chinese Takeaway” (2011), “Monzón: A Knockout Blow” a standout Disney series in 2019, and doc feature breakout “Muchachos.” Set to shoot from Oct.
28., “Homo Argentum” looks like one of a select number of major feature films still going into production in Argentina after Javier Milei’s government has discontinued public-sector film funding at Argentine film-TV agency INCAA.
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