Cuban-American singer will play the mother of the bride in Gaz Alazraki’s film
Cuban-American singer and actress Gloria Estefan has joined the cast of Warner Bros. and Plan B’s “Father of the Bride” remake alongside star Andy Garcia, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.
Gaz Alazraki is directing the film that also recently cast Adria Arjona as the bride-to-be. Estefan will play the mother of the bride and Garcia’s wife in the film.
The movie will revolve around a Cuban-American family, and screenwriter Matt Lopez is writing the script, drawing from his experience of years of attending Cuban weddings.
“Father of the Bride” was a remake of the 1950 original film that starred Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor. The 1991 version of the film starred Steve Martin as George Banks, a doting father who is reluctant to let go of his daughter when he discovers she’s getting married.
Cuban-American singer and actress Gloria Estefan has joined the cast of Warner Bros. and Plan B’s “Father of the Bride” remake alongside star Andy Garcia, an individual with knowledge of the project told TheWrap.
Gaz Alazraki is directing the film that also recently cast Adria Arjona as the bride-to-be. Estefan will play the mother of the bride and Garcia’s wife in the film.
The movie will revolve around a Cuban-American family, and screenwriter Matt Lopez is writing the script, drawing from his experience of years of attending Cuban weddings.
“Father of the Bride” was a remake of the 1950 original film that starred Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor. The 1991 version of the film starred Steve Martin as George Banks, a doting father who is reluctant to let go of his daughter when he discovers she’s getting married.
- 4/23/2021
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Warner Bros and Plan B’s Cuban-American Father of the Bride looks to have landed one of the most famous Cuban-American entertainers of all. Sources tell Deadline that singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan is in negotiations to join Andy Garcia in the reboot, which Gaz Alazraki has been set to helm. The pic will revolve around a Cuban-American family, with Matt Lopez penning the script. Estefan would play Garcia’s wife, with Adria Arjona tapped to play the bride-to-be.
The film will tell the story of a father coming to grips with his daughter’s upcoming wedding through the prism of multiple relationships within a big, sprawling Cuban-American family. It will be more of a rom-com than previous versions of film. While this will mark the third iteration of the story, sources say this will be more in the vein of the original Spencer Tracy pic and not the Steve Martin franchise from the 1990s.
The film will tell the story of a father coming to grips with his daughter’s upcoming wedding through the prism of multiple relationships within a big, sprawling Cuban-American family. It will be more of a rom-com than previous versions of film. While this will mark the third iteration of the story, sources say this will be more in the vein of the original Spencer Tracy pic and not the Steve Martin franchise from the 1990s.
- 4/23/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
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