Endemol Shine StudiosMexican author Laura Esquivel’s “Like Water for Chocolate,” a story of forbidden love imbued with passion, romance and traditions was a worldwide success - as a book and later, as a movie. Now, Endemol Shine Studios, the scripted division of Endemol Shine North America, which acquired the rights to the best-selling novel, hopes to turn the tale of Tita and Pedro into a hit English-language series and adapt it in other languages as a global television franchise. “Of all the companies that offered to create the series, Endemol Shine Studios stood out in sharing a vision of Like Water for Chocolate closest to my own: leading from the heart." Laura's epic love story has all the ingredients of a breakthrough drama,” states Endemol Shine Studios President Sharon Hall. Esquivel’s representatives, the Colchie Agency in New York on behalf of the Casanovas & Lynch Agency in Barcelona negotiated the deal.

Source: Forbes March 04, 2017 00:11 UTC