Reuters reports that Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna are filming Rudo y Cursi on Mexico’s Pacific coast. The dramedy was written and is being directed by Carlos Cuarón, who with brother Alfonso co-wrote Y tu mamá también, which also starred the two actors.
Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) co-produces with Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, director of last year’s Oscar-winning Babel.
Rudo y Cursi, which broadly translated as “Rough and Corny,” is a tale of love and hate between professional soccer-playing brothers played by Luna and Garcia Bernal.
Inarritu, Alfonso Cuarón and fellow Mexican Guillermo del Toro, who directed last year’s Pan’s Labyrinth, recently formed a production company that will make five films in a $100 million deal with Universal Pictures. Rudo y Cursi is the first film in the package.
Filming started three weeks ago in the small coastal town of Cihuatlan, close to a banana plantation owned by the Cuarón family that the brothers visited as children.
