Shakira’s incident with Hacienda became the inspiration for Movistar Plus+’s new original series. The entertainment platform announced its preparation this Wednesday ‘Celeste’, a fiction created by Diego San José that revolves around the character of a Tax Office inspector facing his most important case. When you are on the verge of retirement.
Celeste is the big star of Latin music. Their songs are a global phenomenon. His concerts fill stadiums. She has long hair promoting her own perfume, her own underwear brand, and her own shampoo. But this series isn’t about that. The real hero of ‘Celeste’ Sara Santano A tax inspector who devoted his whole life to collecting taxes.
This is all he has ever done since he took the exams in his twenties, it is time for early retirement after more than three decades dedicated to the Tax Office. Or so he thought. Because on his last day, he receives the most important task of his career: Prove that big Latin star Celeste lives in Spain and has to pay taxes here. A mission with twenty million Euros tied up in Spanish coffers. For this, Sara will have to leave her life aside and go to Celeste’s house and prove that she spent 184 days there. Half the year plus one.
“Celeste” was born from the difficulty of raising a child income My head spins around the grayest character I can think of: a sixty-year-old tax inspector who lives alone and has no special talents. Because that’s what ‘Celeste’ is trying to be; A chase to the border in the gray and depressing universe of the Tax Office. It’s like ‘Zodiac’ but with a personal income tax“, says Diego San José and adds: “It was very important to have Movistar Plus+ as an ally, who have been involved in the project since we presented the idea for the series and whose team we look forward to starting to work with. ”
Diego San José is the creator of the competition-winning trilogy ‘Vota Juan’, ‘Vamos Juan’ and ‘Venga Juan’. fierce reward It was awarded the best television comedy award of 2021 and 2022. In the cinema, together with Borja Cobeaga, he wrote the scripts of films such as ‘Pagafantas’, ‘No control’, ‘8 Basque surnames’, ‘Fe de etarras’ or ‘Superlópez’. They were nominated for a Goya award for best adapted screenplay.