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Filmax Swoops on ‘May I Speak With the Enemy’ (EXCLUSIVE)
‘May I Speak’ is from Pecado Films, which backed ‘Close Your Eyes,’ and Arcadia Motion Pictures, behind ‘Robot Dreams’ and ‘The Beasts.’
Filmax has nabbed sales rights to “May I Speak With the Enemy,” a biopic focusing on the Spanish Civil War years of Miguel Gila, who went on to pioneer stand-up in Spain. Co-written by Alexis Morante from an original idea by Pecado producer José Alba, “May I Speak” stars newcomer Oscar Lasarte, a comedian and magician, as a young Gila, just 17 when he heads for the trenches, to suffer through battles, hunger and a botched execution by a drunken firing squad. The experiences inspired one of his most famous sketches, where he phones up the enemy to ask them to stop the war and, if it has to attack on Sunday, could it be after soccer matches.
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