Acapulco, The long-awaited series Apple Original of 10-episode comedy starring Eugenio Derbez, Who is also an executive producer, will premiere worldwide on Friday, October 8, 2021 on Apple TV +.
Acapulco tells the story of maximum Gallardo (Enrique Arrizon), A twenty dream comes true when he gets the job of his life as a waiter at the most popular resort of Acapulco. He soon realizes that the job is much more complicated than he imagined and that to be successful, he will have to learn to navigate between a demanding clientele, 1 fickle mentor and a complicated family life, all without losing the path he has imagined. without falling into temptations or shortcuts.
The series takes place in the year of 1984 with Derbez narrating and interpreting the current version of the main character: maximum Gallardo.
The cast that accompanies Derbez includes a Enrique Arrizon, Fernando Carsa, Damián Alcázar, Camila Perez, Chord Overstreet, Vanessa Bauche, Regina Reynoso, Raphael Alejandro, Jessica Collins, Rafael Cebrián, Regina Orozco i Carlos Corona.
coming from Lionsgate Television, The series is inspired by the box office success of 3 No studies i Pantelion Films How to be a Latin Lover and is produced by Apple for Lionsgate Television, 3Pas Studios and The Tannenbaum Company.
The series was created by Austin Winsberg, Eduardo Cisneros i Jason Shuman; Winsberg is exercised as showrunner next to Chris Harris. Winsberg, Cisneros, Shuman and Harris are also executive producers.
Richard Shepard directs the pilot and Jay Karas is producer and director. In addition to being the protagonist, Derbez is executive producer in addition to Ben Odell and co-producer Sonia Gambaro of 3Pas Studios. Eric and Kim Tannenbaum produce and Jason Wang co-produces on behalf of The Tannenbaum Company.
When is the Acapulco series launched at Apple?
The new series will be available from October 8, 2021
Eugenio Derbez
With a long career behind him, Derbez it’s not just a star on its own Mexico native, but is also considered one of the best known Hispanic figures in United States.
In his career, family comedy stands out Instructions not included (2013), which with 44.4 million dollars raised is the highest grossing Spanish film in history in USA (Worldwide it totaled 100.5 million).
Derbez has also worked on other tapes such as By the hut (2018) i Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019).
On television he has had recent success for programs such as LOL: The last one to laugh (2018-2019) with which he won his first Emmy Award and has achieved great success with his “reality”, Traveling with the Derbez (2019).