Loveable comic-book scamp Mafalda is getting a new animated series adaptation, announced Monday as part of Netflix’s “Made in Argentina” presentation. The project will be directed, produced and showrun by award-winning filmmaker Juan José Campanella, with Gastón Gorali as co-writer and general producer and Sergio Fernández as production designer. Campanella and Gorali’s studio Mundoloco CGI (Metegol / Underdogs).
Mafalda was created by Argentinian cartoonist Quino in 1964. The clever six-year-old-girl with a distinctive red bow won over readers, in particular because of her socially-conscious values which led her to become a figurehead of the Latin American youth movement in the ’60s and ’70s.
“Mafalda and her friends not only made me laugh a lot, but from time to time, they sent me to the dictionary. And each new word I learned came with the reward of a new laugh,” Campanella shared in a statement. “It’s our obligation to preserve the humor, timing, irony and observations of Quino. We know that we won’t be able to elevate Mafalda because she cannot be higher. But we dream that those of us who have been devoted to her since the first hour can share her with our children, and even if there are things reserved only for adults, we can all laugh out loud as a family, and why not, go to the dictionary from time to time.”
[Source: Variety]
