HBO Max orders ‘Gordita Chronicles’ comedy collection

By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Streamer HBO Max has given a collection order for half-hour scripted comedy “Gordita Chronicles”.

Newcomer Olivia Goncalves will headline the single-camera comedy collection, which hails from Sony Pictures Television, actor Zoe Saldana’s Cinestar Pictures And Osprey Productions, HBO Max mentioned in a press launch.

Actor Eva Longoria will direct the pilot for the present, a few 12-year-old Dominican lady who struggles to suit into hedonistic Eighties Miami as her household pursues the American dream. Claudia Forestieri wrote the pilot and can function govt producer alongside Longoria.

Brigitte Munoz-Liebowitz is the showrunner. In the collection, Goncalves will star Carlota ‘Cucu’ Castelli, a willful, assured, reluctant Dominican immigrant with a coronary heart of gold. Cucu is overzealous in her quest to regain the queen bee standing in her new faculty, when her dad and mom and older sister transfer to Miami for her dad’s new job.

Actors Diana Maria Riva and Juan Javier Cardenas will play Cucu’s dad and mom Adela and Victor Castelli, respectively. Savannah Nicole Ruiz will seem as Emilia, Cucu’s older sister, whereas Noah Rico will painting Yosmel ‘Yoshy’ Hernandez, a Cuban refugee and Cucu’s first pal in Miami.

Cosette Hauer will essay the position of Ashley, an optimistic go-getter determined to ?t in, however however at all times stands out. Executive producers on the venture embody Josh Berman, Jennifer Robinson, Chris King, Munoz-Liebowitz, Saldana, Mariel Saldana and Cisely Saldana.