Tango Legend Carlos Gardel Set for Bio from ‘La Jauria’ Producer Kapow (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentCarlos Gardel,  the most famous figure in tango history, is set to become the subject of a bio-series made by Kapow,  the Argentine producer of HBO Max/Amazon hit “La Jauría,” and Luis Ortega, director of episodes of Netflix’s “El Marginal” as well as smash hit true crime feature “El Angel.”Currently being written by Ortega, with partner Rodolfo Palacios at their prodco El Despacho, which will co-produce the series, the series should be ready for presentation by around the end of May, Ortega told Variety.Designed as an “auteur, premium and original” production and part of Kapow’s fiction department output, the bio has to be high-end, said Kapow founder Agustín Sacanell. “This has to be a big production to be done well.

It can’t be done on a modest budget,” he added. The series is inspired by Felipe Pigna’s 500-page plus biography of the singer-composer, based on many years of research.No other tango figure comes close to Gardel’s worldwide fame, prompted by his dashing looks, genius as a composer, baritone voice, singular emphatic singing style and tragic early death in an air accident.It was Gardel’s first recorded tango song, 1917’s “Mi Noche Triste,” which endowed tango with a sense of tragedy, helping to extend tango’s popularity toArgentina’s establishment.Composed by Gardel, 1935’s “Por una cabeza” features in a famous tango scene in Martin Brest’s “Scent of a Woman” and the opening scene of Steven Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List” and is danced by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis in James Cameron’s “True Lies.”In Argentine Spanish, “ser Gardel” means to be the best.