Penelope Cruz will be in the new film by Los Javis, Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, entitled The black ball, that will begin to roll at the end of August, and that will focus on the life and work of Federico García Lorca. The protagonist will be the musician, who debuts in the interpretation, guitarricadelafuente. Next to him Miguel Bernardeau (To want), Carlos González (Marilientre), Lola Dueñas (Poison y The Messiah). “We have written the role of Penelope, and we are very excited,” said Ambrossi in the presentation of the project in Cannes. The filming will be carried out throughout Spain, for 12 weeks, produced by Movistar + and a small part abroad. “We lack even more interpreters to announce, and we will tell more things.”
The black ball It develops in three times from Spain, 1933, 1937 and 2017. The plot is connected to the homonym drama that Federico García Lorca never ended, who was going to have his first gay character. “The film tells how to be gay man at different times. In addition to how little it is known about The black ball We have inspired the play The dark stone, of Alberto Conejero, in which there was already talk of this manuscript of Lorca.
On guitarricadelafuente, Calvo has told that they also wrote for him, because the character is also a musician. “We like it, and we have demonstrated it, work with new people, who come without learned vices. And sing a lot to act, as we have already seen with Amaia in The Messiah ”. And about their approach to the world of Lorca, the Javis have preferred not to count much more. “It is one of the most cool things in the project, let’s wait until the public discovers it.”
The Javis debuted in the cinema with The call (2017), adaptation of his homonymous theater work. Subsequently the series have developed Paquita Salas, poison y The Messiah, and produced series like Cardo, Mariliendres o Dressed in blue. In that production work they are behind the new version of My dear lady, directed by Fernando González Molina, or Argentina The bad, in which the director and screenwriter Armando Bo will feature Karla Sofía Gascón.