Legendary Primes David Victori’s ‘You Would Do It Too’ at Content material Americas

Set and shot north of Barcelona in Manresa, “You Would Do It Too,” from David Victori (“Cross the Line,” “Sky Rojo”), is a lightning-fast eight-part half-hour thriller following a bus heist gone awry. Written and directed by Victori, it is usually the primary Spanish manufacturing ensuing from an alliance struck between Legendary Tv and Spain’s Espotlight Media. 

Victori will journey to Miami and communicate on the New Expertise Modela panel at Content material Americas on Jan. 25 as Legendary Tv, who maintain worldwide rights, intention to shut a deal for Latin America off the Miami convention. 

Additionally created by Victori, the collection will debut completely on Disney+ in Spain. Anne Thomopoulos (Legendary) and Anxo Rodríguez (Espotlight) co-produce the collection, which is a pure subsequent step for a director who has been constructing a canon of thrillers by way of the years. 

Victori moved waves profitable the 2012 YouTube Your Movie Competition with quick movie “The Guilt,” beating out 15,000 submissions to safe a Ridley Scott and Michael Fassbender manufacturing funds with the Scott Free manufacturing studio. 

Earlier than his YouTube win, Victori had already been chosen by Selection at Cannes 2012 as certainly one of Spain’s 10 abilities to trace. Over the following decade he has written, directed or produced a slew of initiatives, notably Filmax manufacturing “Cross the Line,” Netflix’s “Sky Rojo,” the place he directed, and Ikiru Movies and 4Cats Photos horror-thriller “The Pact.”

“You Would Do It Too” then sees an auteur in his wheelhouse, mixing a decade of studying right into a collection with addictive tempo and thriller. Detectives and former lovers Rebeca (Ana Polvorosa) and Fran (Pablo Molinero) should reconstruct the reality behind a triple murder as witnesses give inconsistent timelines. Every character is a misshapen piece of the puzzle on this trendy crime drama.

Selection spoke with Victori forward of the collection’ presentation at Content material Americas.

What led you to this venture? What’s its origin story?

I’m all the time looking for tales the place the excellence between proper and flawed is blurred. Characters’ conflicts are comprehensible to the viewer and the viewers has a fancy relationship with what they’re seeing. On this venture, I learn an article about one thing that occurred in Mexico and used that as inspiration to develop the story in a approach the place every plot twist makes the ethics of the characters more and more advanced.

In “You Would Do It Too” you drop us proper into the combination, utilizing the important thing witnesses to disclose their variations of what occurred throughout the heist. What was most necessary in writing these witnesses?

After engaged on “Sky Rojo” for Netflix, I knew I needed to duplicate the identical dynamic narrative model in my subsequent present. I needed to create a present that stored viewers absolutely engaged and didn’t have the temptation to take a look at Instagram or Twitter. I invested loads of time in character design and through rehearsals, I guided the actors by way of the essence of every character. I additionally gave them loads of artistic freedom within the working course of.

How do you as a director information your actors in a collection the place a lot of their efficiency depends on the viewer questioning the reality of what they’re saying?

It will be significant for me to work meticulously with actors earlier than filming begins. They should have a transparent understanding of their motivations and the explanations behind the selections they make in every scene. We additionally used a special script for them, a chronological script, to make sure that they had a transparent understanding of the order of occasions. Rehearsals had been additionally accomplished chronologically to assist actors perceive the emotional arc of every scene.

This collection may be very quick paced and crammed with motion. When writing, How do you method tempo and suspense?

I realized lots whereas working with Alex Pina and his group on “Sky Rojo for Netflix. The narrative within the collection is break up into completely different time durations and is very dynamic. This venture brings collectively my experiences and insights gained there, in addition to my unconventional method to working with actors and the digital camera group on my second movie “Cross The Line,” which produced distinctive outcomes. Whereas writing the script, I stored all of this in thoughts to create the right script which permits me to proceed exploring my model as a storyteller.

Music performs an necessary position right here, with throbbing beats offering a pulse. Did you method scoring the collection with sure imperatives? How did you view music as a instrument in telling this story?

Music is the heartbeat of any story, and on this venture, the place the tempo is essential, it holds the facility to change the viewer’s notion of time. We invested loads of effort and time within the soundtrack as a result of it was important for the ultimate viewing expertise.