Andy García represents a Cuba in the new version of the film ‘Father of the Bride’. (Photo: Andy García-Facebook)
The Cuban actor Andy García will be one of the protagonists of the Latin version of the comedy El padre de la novia (Vader van die bruid) which is being prepared by Warner Bros. and the Mexican director Gaz Alazraki.
“I am very emotional about joining a group that has traded such allegory for many years and to represent my Cuban culture and heritage in this history,” he said in a statement received by media such as Deadline o The Hollywood Reporter.
García, nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor by The Godfather: Part III (1990), will also be the producer of this comedy.
Alazraki, known for the exit exit Nosotros los adellikes (2013) y por la también muy popular series Club de Cuervos (2015-2019), will be the creator of this remake that contrasts this time and as a novelty with a Latin family as a protagonist.
The playwright Matt Lopez, who worked on songs like Bedtime Stories (2008) by Adam Sandler o The Wizard’s Apprentice (2010) starring Nicolas Cage as the protagonist, writes this new movie.
Steve Martin led the comedy in 1991 Father of the bride in that a father resists to be seen when he hides himself with the love of his life and he is ashamed of the hogar trust.
In this popular comedy comedy, which shows all the difficulties involved in organizing and planning a bathroom, including appearances Diane Keaton, Martin Short and Kimberly Williams-Paisley under the direction of Charles Shyer.
This film repeats in the sequel Father of the Bride Part II (1995), in which regressed all the elecun with Steve Martin in front and in that, in lieu of lios for a boda, the problems in the illegitimate family by an embarrassment .
No matter, the 1991 film by Steve Martin, which in those years was one of Hollywood’s most popular actors, was actually a remake of a story with a similar premise and the same title from 1950 that encounters Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor and Joan Bennett at the Orders of the film Vincente Minnelli.
This is the first episode of Father of the Bride to have three Oscar nominations (best movie, best actor for Spencer Tracy and best actor for Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett), but finally there is no way to tell any of their statuses.
Andy García was born in Habana in 1956 and moved to the United States with his family.
His artistic career is full of vultures in the early years and principles of the new with films such as The Untouchables of Elliot Ness or The Successful Ascent. Peru fue El padrino III el trabajo que le dio cartel de estrella en Hollywood.
More late has intervened in reconciling films like When a man loves a woman, The night is about Manhattan, Ocean’s Eleven (… Twelve and … Thirtheen) and, most recently, Geostorm, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again y The Mule.