Mexican film 'Tus dos muertos' finally reaches cinemas after nine years of struggle

After nearly a decade of challenges, the Mexican film "Tus dos muertos," adapted from Jorge Alberto Gudiño's novel, is finally set to release in theaters on August 20. The movie, starring Gerardo Trejoluna, promises a gritty narrative centered on a disgraced police officer tasked with investigating the disappearance of a politician's son.

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One of the producers brought the story, because the author had also been his university teacher and they wanted to make it a movie. This was in 2017 and we started looking at options, we applied for public funds and then we couldn't film because of the pandemic so we did it until 2022.

As the investigation unfolds, the protagonist delves into a web of corruption and personal revelations, uncovering not only dark secrets surrounding the case but also confronting uncomfortable truths about his own life. The cinematic adaptation is helmed by director Daniel Castro Zimbrón, known for his previous works "Tau" and "Las tinieblas," with Brontis Jodorowsky cast as the antagonist.

Producers Victor Leycegui and the company Varios Lobos faced a protracted journey to bring the film to fruition. The project began in 2017 when a producer, who had been Gudiño's university student, proposed the adaptation. Initial efforts to secure public funding were followed by significant delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, pushing filming to 2022.

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It was a film that could have easily remained shelved because it was expensive, but fortunately, the Spanish company La Claqueta came in, which allowed us to do all the post-production in the European country.

"It was a film that could have easily remained shelved because it was expensive, but fortunately, the Spanish company La Claqueta came in, which allowed us to do all the post-production in the European country," Leycegui stated. This collaboration was crucial after initial funding ran out, preventing the film from being "canned."

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I had made two other films that were somewhat intimate, of great solitude, isolated characters, in the woods or in the desert and their own mental worlds.

"Tus dos muertos" enters a competitive summer release window, following major blockbusters like "Toy Story 5" and the latest Spider-Man installment. Director Castro Zimbrón noted that the film allowed him to explore a different creative approach compared to his previous, more intimate and solitary character-driven films, embracing a less storyboard-dependent method for this project. The cast also features Myriam Bravo, Juan Daniel García Treviño, and Roberto Sosa.

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It allowed me to play with something else, to build from another place, I used to make films entirely in storyboard and now I risked not doing that.