Gil to film Rulfo novel.(World News)(Mateo Gil)(Brief article)

From: Daily Variety | Date: March 29, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Alejandro Amenabar co-scribe Mateo Gil is teaming with Spain's Sogecine and Ariete-Ariane and Portugal's Take 2000 to write and direct a bigscreen adaptation of Juan Rulfo's novel "Pedro Paramo," a seminal work in modern Latin American literature.

Mexican Eugenio Caballero, who won an Academy Award this year for "Pan's Labyrinth," has been tapped as art director.

Gil and Caballero are scouting in Jalisco, Mexico, for a ghost village as the film's key location.

Gil and Sogecine, the film production division of giant Spanish TV conglom Sogecable, worked as helmer and ...

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