A long -awaited advance for the film adaptation of Spider -woman kiss It has been revealed.
He focuses on an Argentine prison in 1981, where a gay hairdresser named Luis Molina is complying with an eight -year sentence for allegedly corrupting a minor. He forms an unlikely bond with his cellmate, a Marxist named Valentin Arregui Paz, and creates fantasies in his own mind about a classic silver screen called Aurora to escape the horrors of the prison.
Seen for the first time as a musical in the West End stage in 1992, it has a score of John Kander and Fred EBB (Cabaret, Chicago) and presents standards such as “dress them”, “She is a woman” and the titular number.
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He Spider -woman kiss The film is written and directed by Bill Condon (Dreamgirls), Based on the book by Terrence McNally (which in turn was adapted from Manuel Puig’s novel).
As already confirmed, Jennifer López plays Aurora in the film, while joining her are Diego Luna (Andor), Playing Valentin Arregui and Tonatiuh (Continue) Like Luis Molina. Also in the cast are Bruno Bichir, Josefina Scaglione and Aline Mayagoitia.
Its world premiere took place at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. A theatrical release date for October 10, 2025 has been planned.
After workshops and initial productions at the State University of New York and in Toronto since 1990, the musical moved to Broadway in 1993, a year after his career at the Shaftesbury theater. Then he won a total of seven Tony awards, including the best musical.
The previous cinematographic credits of Condon include the tastes of Chicago (2002), Dreamgirls (2006), Beauty and the beast (2017) and The best showman (2017), while López has starred in films such as Selena (1997), Maid in Manhattan (2002) and Fans (2019).
Spider -woman kiss It is produced by Barry Josephson, Tom Kirdahy, Greg Yolen and Matt Geller, with López, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas and Benny Medina served as executive producers on behalf of Nuyorícan productions.
Puig’s novel was previously adapted to a 1985 feature film, which saw William Hurt win an Oscar for his interpretation of Molina.
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