Full train. Destination Asturias’ It made sense that the top-grossing film of the year, which premiered last year’s summer and grossed over eight million euros, would set up an epic (or at least a sequel) following in the footsteps of ‘Daddy’. there is not more than one’ and its two continuations. santiago vault Since 2019, he has been breaking box office records with his ‘summer movie’. “Some people say I am the Georgie Dann of cinema,” he jokes, but on this occasion it was occupied by others. ‘Daddy there’s only one 3’ (over 14m euros), so when he comes to reaffirm his title as the undisputed king of the 2022 box office, it will be his first encounter with the Christmas billboard, and most likely himself.
As a novelty, this time he is writing the script (along with his usual collaborator, Martha Gonzalez de la Vega), but he does not direct the film that Inés de León puts in his hands. “We were clear that there would be a sequel, because if the public reacts, we react, we are people who want to please. But I had to do ‘Dad only has a 3’, so I thought someone else could run it. But who? I should have admired him enough, and he had a vision when it came to making comedy. And I fell: Ines de Leon. Because he will be in the lead role peace padilla Y peace vega, I thought I could add another female flair.”
“Full train 2: Now they are” Part of the same premise as ‘A todo train’. Destino Asturias is mentioned, but on this occasion, two actresses who need to take care of the children on the trip that will take them to summer camp. “We thought we could do the same thing, but radically different. It was they who were now in trouble because we defended a little bit about everyone’s right to turn everything upside down”.
So, on the one hand, we will take the children’s part alone on the train, which will again face the machinations of cops and thieves, again with Florentino Fernández, and this time in the company of other adults. Ramón Langa, Chani Martín or Carlos Iglesias. On the other hand, Paz Padilla and Paz Vega (along with one of the naughty boys) will embark on an unrestrained escape from Spanish territory, from Madrid to Barcelona, until they reach France. “It’s just like detergents: newly developed formula. They told me at the premiere that it was better than the first, and although it pissed me off for not directing, I am extremely happy and satisfied.”
Santiago Segura says he gives the people what they need. But how do you know what the public needs? A mystery, especially if we take that into account Using hooligan and iconoclastic comedy, he managed to turn Torrente almost into a social phenomenon, and now he’s accomplished the same on a radically opposite track record for being the whitest and most harmless family comedy.. “I can assure you that none of this fits into a strategy. I would make movies that I really wanted to see and go to the movies with my girls and we would get really bored, so I tried to do something we could all have fun with. There really seems to be something missing, but that’s not what I meant,” he said.
Inés de León compares the public’s need to watch family cinema with films of the eighties or nineties such as ‘Los Goonies’ or ‘Solo en casa’. “Family cinema is a very respectable and difficult thing to do, it’s not bullshit”, adds Segura. Of course, this time (as before) there is no room for politically incorrect jokes. “I always say that the limits of humor are in anything that makes you laugh. If it’s funny, there’s a border, if not, it’s over. It’s not funny if it bothers you or if you don’t like it.” But… Torrent didn’t produce exactly that? “No for Torrente viewers. But even in these family movies, there can be things that offend people, and you can’t help it even if you don’t want to. If I overstep the bounds of humor, unintentionally”.