From the Eixample to Hollywood: the remake of a Cesc Gay film is the new phenomenon at Sundance
'The Invite', an adaptation of 'Sentimental', stars Penélope Cruz, Edward Norton, Seth Rogen and Olivia Wilde, who also directs the film.
BarcelonaThe invite, he remake produced by Hollywood Cesc Gay's comedy SentimentalThe film, which premiered a few days ago at the Sundance Film Festival, has been acquired by A24 for over €10 million. Olivia Wilde directs the film and leads a cast that also includes Seth Rogen, Edward Norton, and a blonde Penélope Cruz. Wilde and Rogen play the couple who in Sentimental Belén Cuesta and Javier Cámara played the roles, and Norton and Cruz are the married couple originally played by Alberto San Juan and Griselda Siciliani.
The inviteand, how SentimentalThe film revolves around the encounter between two couples: a marriage in crisis and their upstairs neighbors, who are very uninhibited in matters of love and sex, to the point that their nightly moans keep the downstairs neighbors awake. The American version of the story has been very well received at Sundance by critics and audiences alike, and everything points to it being one of the most acclaimed films of this year's festival.
In fact, the sale of the film to A24 is, for the moment, the most important acquisition made this year at Sundance. The initial bid for the film started at $10 million (€8.36 million). And although the final figure has not been confirmed, Variety It points to an amount exceeding $12 million (€10.04 million). In the bidding war for The invite Studios such as Warner, Focus, Netflix, Neon, Searchlight, and Sony have also participated. Being the most coveted film by studios at Sundance is a springboard that can take a film to the Oscars, as happened with Little Miss Sunshine either CODA.
Sentimental He was already adapting the play The neighbors upstairsby Cesc Gay himself. The screenplay for the American adaptation is written by actors Rashida Jones and Will McCormack, and the film is produced by Annapurna, Megan Ellison's company, which also produced Wilde's directorial debut. Page sucker (Booksmart).
Sentimental It already had several international versions: the South Korean one Witjip saramdeul (The people upstairs), the Italian Vicini de casa, the French Te plus if affinities (premiered in our house last summer as Dinner... and whatever happens), the Czech V dobro y zlé, the Russian Neprilichnye gusto and Switzerland Die Nachbarn von obenThe universality of the story was already evident in the previous success of the work The neighbors upstairs, which had been adapted in Argentina, Chile, Portugal, Colombia and Mexico, among other countries.