AF Films Adapts Arriaga's Amores Perros Screenplay for TV
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- AF Films acquired rights to Guillermo Arriaga's original screenplay "Perro Blanco, Perro Negro" — the source material for Alejandro González Iñárritu's 2000 film "Amores Perros" — to develop a high-end international drama series.
- LatinWe, Sofia Vergara's Hispanic talent management and entertainment company, is partnering with AF Films on the project, with Arriaga set as creative advisor and AF founder Frank Ariza as producer; the team has begun early conversations with global platforms.
- The series is "inspired by and based upon" the screenplay — not an adaptation of Iñárritu's film — and will revisit its themes of interconnected lives, moral fracture, and urban existence reimagined for contemporary long-form storytelling.
- Amores Perros was the first installment of Iñárritu's "Trilogy of Death," followed by the Arriaga-penned "21 Grams" and Oscar-winning "Babel"; the original premiered at Cannes, taking the Critics' Week Grand Prize, a BAFTA, and an Oscar nomination.
- AF Films also recently secured Latin American remake rights to Paolo Genovese's "Follemente" — Italy's biggest box office hit of 2025 — to be retitled "Love and Mind."
Why it matters: By acquiring Arriaga's source screenplay rather than the Iñárritu film rights, the producers anchor a new series to a Cannes Critics' Week winner and Oscar nominee while preserving creative freedom to expand the narrative universe. Pairing the Amores Perros lineage with the Italian hit Follemente remake positions AF Films as an active acquirer of prestige international IP for Latin American and global platforms.
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