Almodovar To Make A TV Show
Pedro Almodovar, the director of Volver and this year’s Cannes effort Broken Embraces, is set to turn one of his early hits into a TV show. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, a farcical story about love, infidelity, terrorism, sleeping pills and gazpacho, was a massive hit for the director in 1988, and is now going to be an English-language show.
The original film starred Carmen Maura, Rossy de Palma and a young Antonio Banderas, in a story about Maura’s Pepa, an actress who dubs commercials and whose life goes into a tailspin when her lover leaves her. While she goes a bit nuts (puts her apartment up for sale, makes a large jug of sleeping-pill laced gazpacho) and searches Madrid for him, a series of misunderstandings between her friends and acquaintances make everything very complicated, very silly and totally bizarre.
The TV show will be based around a group of suburban women who have known each other their whole lives, and who are “looking at the second half of their lives” says writer and co-producer Mimi Schmir. It will keep the humour of the original, we’re told, and also the gazpacho gag.
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