Santo Cuba
Gabriela Obregón, Associate Producer who is at the head of the team of writers of the series El Santo, El Enmascarado De Plata, from TRH3Media, stated that part of the challenge has been to write the story in such a way that it also connects with millennials. El Hijo del Santo —professional wrestler known by this name and son of the historical Mexican wrestler— led the research and was involved in the development of the series.
Although El Santo is an icon, there is a generation who did not know him, however, they do know about the character because of his films, available on TV and platforms. “It is very important to make a good script of the series and TRH3Media and their producers are always on the lookout for improvements. Here, the relevant thing is to be able to reflect how this man was able to transform into a superhero, because in real life, what he did was tame lions and elephants, for example,” she mentioned.
This is done by telling the story of how the character unfolds, and the topic of the mask in his life. He was “a person who never took it off, and is even buried with it,” she said. Additionally, they aim to reflect the evolution of the character through the different formats in which his story circulated: film, comics, TV.
El Hijo del Santo has been in Cuba in the last few weeks looking for locations, reliving the times, since in 1958 his father’s first two films were made there. The process of researching the story has already concluded and is based on his personal diaries that were never revealed, not even to the rest of his children.
“It is important for me to participate in the construction of the story of the series, to guarantee that it is loyal to the character it portrays. I think a hundred years after his birthdate is the right moment to show his true story, how he lived and became El Santo,” stated El Hijo del Santo.
