EXCLUSIVE: Guillermo Arriaga‘s original screenplay on which seminal Mexican film Amores Perros was based is being turned into a scripted TV series.
AF Films has acquired rights to Perro Blanco, Perro Negro and is working with Sofia Vergara’s Hispanic talent management and entertainment company LatinWe to develop and produce a high-end international drama series. A source close to the project told us Arriaga will be a creative advisor, with AF’s Frank Ariza the producer.
AF and LatinWe are overseeing development, packaging and production, and have begun “early conversations with global partners and platforms,” they say. The rights acquisition is purely for the original screenplay, and not for an adaptation of Alejandro González Iñárritu‘s 2000 pic Amores Perros.
The screenplay was the basis of Iñárritu’s directorial debut, which is considered among the first classic films of the 21st century. Amores Perros premiered in Cannes, where it won the Critics’ Week Grand Prize and launched the careers of both Iñárritu and Arriaga. A BAFTA win and an Academy Award nomination followed.
The new series will be “inspired by and based upon” the screenplay and its narrative universe, with Amores Perros being the first of Iñárritu’s ‘Trilogy of Death’ – the others are the Arriaga-penned 21 Grams and Oscar winner Babel. Arriaga will help shape the narrative, character arcs and thematic continuity.
Per the producers, the adaptation will “revisit and expand the thematic foundations established in Perro Blanco, Perro Negro – interconnected lives, moral fracture and the raw emotional terrain of urban existence – reimagined through a contemporary lens and long-form storytelling.”
“This is one of the most important pieces of cinematic IP to emerge from Latin America in the last 25 years, ” said Ariza, founder of AF Films. “Bringing this material back to its creative source, and doing so in collaboration with Guillermo Arriaga, allows us not only to honor its legacy, but to evolve it into a new form that speaks to today’s global audience.”
For AF, the news comes in the days after it secured remake rights to Paolo Genovese’s Follemente, Italy’s biggest box office hit of 2025, for the Latin American market. The AF Mexico version will be titled Love and Mind.
LatinWe, founded by entertainment executive Luis Balaguer and Modern Family star Vergara, was launched to connect Latino talent with the U.S. mainstream. Its production slate includes ABC’s Killer Women, El Secreto de Selena, Su Nombre Era Dolores and animated feature Koati.
