Gina Rodriguez to Direct Boxing Film 'House of Guerrero' — SkimNews
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- Gina Rodriguez will make her theatrical directorial debut on "House of Guerrero," a boxing feature she co-wrote with Bernardo Cubría ("Acapulco") based on an original story the two developed together.
- Justin Baldoni and Andrew Calof are producing for Wayfarer Studios alongside Scott Budnick and Ameet Shukla for 1Community, with financing from Wayfarer, 1Community, HarbourView Media Group, and Clare LoCicero plus tax-credit financing from Three Point Capital.
- Fight choreography will be led by Clayton J. Barber ("Black Panther," "Creed III") and Eric Brown ("John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum," "The Matrix Resurrections"), with UTA Independent Film Group repping worldwide sales.
- The film reunites Rodriguez and Baldoni professionally for the first time since their CW hit "Jane the Virgin," where Rodriguez starred as Jane Villanueva and Baldoni played Rafael Solano.
- Budnick framed the project as filling a gap in the genre, saying the Latino community "has dominated in boxing for decades but has never been prominently featured in the pantheon of boxing films," positioning it as the next-generation answer to "Rocky" and "Creed."
- The first iteration was announced in 2021 as "Guerrero" with Rodriguez set to direct, produce, and co-star alongside professional boxer Ryan Garcia, who is no longer attached.
Why it matters: The project repositions a storied sport's cinematic lineage by centering Latino fighters, an angle producer Scott Budnick explicitly says has been absent from boxing's film canon — making "House of Guerrero" a deliberate generational and cultural corrective rather than just another sports drama.
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