Mucho Mas Media and Sony Pictures are teaming to develop a remake of 1987 Golden Globe-nominated feature “La Bamba” which was a biopic about rock and roll singer Ritchie Valens. Lou Diamond Phillips broke through portraying Valens in the original film which depicts the teenage Mexican-American’s rise to fame from field laborer to rock star with a string of hit singles over the span of just a few months. The film paid homage to the early days of rock and the talented young man who crossed borders with his music before a plane crash killed him and fellow musicians Buddy Holly and The Big Bopper when Valens was just 17.
Luis Valdez, the writer and director of the original film, is on board as an executive producer while Oscar-nominated writer José Rivera (“The Motorcycle Diaries,” “On the Road”) is attached to pen the script. The new take will reportedly incorporate new biographical details that have come to light in the years since. The film, which Javier Chapa will produce, will also likely cast younger as Phillips was 24 when he shot the film playing Valens who is aged 16-17 throughout the story.
The original film was added to the National Film Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress back in 2017.
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