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Chris & Paul Weitz To Direct ‘The Spanish Dracula;’ Love Story Of Their Mexican Silent Film Actress Grandmother Lupita Tovar & Storied Universal Exec Paul Kohner
EXCLUSIVE: Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz will co-write and co-direct Spanish Dracula, the true story about how silent film star and Mexican actress Lupita Tovar found a second wind starring in Spanish language versions of Hollywood films like the Universal classic Dracula. The Weitz Brothers are her grandsons, and they will produce through Depth of Field, along with Pancho Kohner. He is their uncle and author of The Sweetheart of Mexico, a memoir he helped his mother write about her most fascinating life.
