EXCLUSIVE: Disney+ has boarded Shared Custody, the comedy-drama sequence that marks Champions maker Javier Fesser‘s first directing gig in TV.
We will reveal that the streamer will launch Shared Custody in January 2025, with filmmaker Fesser (Campeonex, Camino, La Gran Aventura de Mortadelo y Filemón) directing the eight-episode sequence, which was introduced over two years in the past and explores what occurs when mother and father separate. Fremantle-backed producer The Immigrant is making the present, which is written and created by Juanjo Moscardó Rius, who created the Goya-nominated A Shitty Remedy, and María Mínguez (Vivir dos Veces).
In Shared Custody, mother and father Cris and Diego have simply separated by mutual settlement. Their intention is to be mature, accountable and pleasant adults for the sake of their five-year-old daughter, however neither of them can afford to reside alone and maintain her. Cris’ work may be very absorbing and Diego doesn’t have a hard and fast wage, so each are pressured to maneuver again to their respective mother and father’ homes. The grandparents are excited that their youngsters and granddaughter are again of their lives, however issues deteriorate quickly. What started as an amicable separation quickly takes a flip once they run into harsh actuality.
Lorena López (The Lengthy Shadows, The Home) and Ricard Farré (Good Manners, Polònia) play the couple. Additionally forged are Adriana Ozores (Los Pequeños Amores, Invisibles), Francesc Orella (Merlí, Santa Evita), Aten Soria (Venus), Fernando Sansegundo (Historias Lamentables), Lucía de Gracia, Cristina Alcázar (Galgos, Cardo), Clara de Ramón (Citas Barcelona), Víctor de la Fuente (Reyes de la Noche, Las Noches de Tefía) and Edu Soto (Nacho, Mortadelo y Filemón. Mission: Save the Earth).
Fesser has gained seven Goya awards, together with Finest Movie for Champions (Campeones) and for Camino, a movie for which he additionally acquired Finest Director and Finest Screenplay gongs. He was additionally Oscar-nominated for an Oscar for brief movie Binta and the Huge Thought, together with profitable a number of different awards.
Fesser mentioned the characters in Shared Custody had attracted him to the TV challenge. “I noticed myself mirrored completely of their greatness and of their miseries,” he added. “I used to be moved by their conflicts and laughed out loud with all of them, and I used to be very drawn to the tone of the proposal. I didn’t think about that such an actual drama might lastly be so humorous. How great to do comedy with out jokes.”
Sofía Fábregas, Vice President of Unique Manufacturing at Disney+ Spain, mentioned: “Fesser has a particular skill to extract humor from probably the most surprising conditions and transfer the viewers together with his humanity and tenderness. Additionally, the scripts are sensible. We’ve actually laughed lots making it.”
The sequence marks the primary out of Spain for The Immigrant, which is behind movies such because the Crystal Bear-winning Adolfo and ViX sequence Ella Camina Sola and Todo lo que Fuimos, which we first advised you about final yr. In whole, the Latinx producer is in post-production on three sequence that may premiere this yr and subsequent.
“We’re very excited that our first sequence in Spain has the imaginative and prescient of a director like Javier, the authenticity of the pen of Juanjo and María, and the collaboration of the incredible crew at Disney,” mentioned Camila Jiménez and Silvana Aguirre, founders of The Immigrant and producers of the sequence, in a press release. “The sequence displays what we search as an organization: To inform deeply human and common tales.”
