Wattpad Webtoon Studios, a global publishing and entertainment division designed for fans of comics and online novels, has announced that it will apply two popular stories written in Spanish for Wattpad: “Perfect Liars” and “Boulevard”.
The phenomenon of Alex Mírez, a young writer of “The Perfect Liar” with 150 million readers, will be applied as a series, and “The Boulevard” read by writer Flor M. Salvador will be a feature film.
This is the first Spanish project funded through the Wattpad Webtoon Studios Development Fund, specifically created to finance and promote the project based on content distributed by these two online reading platforms.
The new project joins the company's ever-increasing proposal, which is currently developing and producing more than 100 film and television projects worldwide, and records an important step in the creation of Spanish content for the Wattpad Webtoon studio.
Alex Mirez (Caracas, 1994) is one of the stars of online fiction. He published his first novel “Choking” in 2016 with the Spanish publisher Nova Casa, and later published two parts of “The Perfect Liar,” which recorded more than 80 million readings on Wattpad. So far, he wrote 11 novels between real and digital, and the most recent “Strange” was published in installments every week for more than a year, and finally in 2021 In actual format in June It has been edited.
His youth drama “Perfect Liars” is produced in Mexico and is adapted as a series by José Miguel Núñez with screenwriters Anna Grazales and Paola Mazlum.
Núñez worked as a lead writer on Netflix's original series “Rebel” and the series “Pinches Mumias” (Univision), and then participated in the project, and is a co-producer and chief writer.
His writing credits also include “La Reina del Sur” (Telemundo) and “El Bato” (NBC Universo), among others. Grajales & Mazlum's credits include the upcoming release of the feature film “None of this was a mistake” produced by Cinema 226 and Videocine.
Grazales & Mazlum is producing 10 series for Netflix, and is developing programs for feature films from Pablo Lalain's Oscar-winning company Fábula, Warner Media, and Sony.
“Perfect Liars” is part of a series of three books published by the Penguin Random House in Spain, two of which have appeared so far and have been reprinted 17 times
“Boulevard” is a romance novel that is part of a four-part series by Wattpad's Mexican writer Flor M. Salvador, which will be adapted by Javier Ruescas, the successful author of youth books. and Atresmedia Cine's upcoming feature, “Somos Fuego,” and a series under development based on the biography of violinist Aarón Lee, “Who am I”
Salvador, who became known under the pseudonym Ekilorhe from Wattpad, studied medicine, but since 2014 he decided to devote himself to writing and published his first novel “Boulevard” on the platform. Penguin Random House España.His most recent work is called “Silence” and deals with controversial topics such as euthanasia, death and human relationships.
“Boulevard”, which turned into a movie, is produced in Spain.
Aron Levitz, President of Wattpad Webtoon Studios, “Perfect Liars” and “Boulevard” have gained popularity among millions of readers and are deeply interested in the Spanish-speaking market around the world.
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