On April 3, filming for the remake of “The Lord of Querencia”a version that this year will have a new television home: Mega.
On this occasion, the period story written by Victor Carrasco will have as protagonists Gabriel Canasplaying the feared José Luis Echenique; Maria Gracia Omegna, like Leonor, the landowner’s wife; already Nicolás Oyarzúnwho will be the hero Manuel Pradenas.
The remake prepared by the team Quena Rencoretand that would air once finished “Like life itself”occurs within the framework of the sale of rights to the TVN soap opera to Mega.
An unprecedented fact in the local industry that has not seen a remake within the genre nor the sale of rights to a television series to the competing channel. However, it is customary to make this type of adaptation in large industries, such as Venezuela, Mexico, Colombia and Brazil.
An example of this was “The Slave Isaura“, broadcast in our country with great success. The story was broadcast for the first time in 1976 by TV Globo and was adapted in 2004 by Rede Record.
The remake of “El Señor de la Querencia” will, without a doubt, be an unprecedented situation in the local industry that will not leave anyone indifferent.
For this reason, we invite you to remember what were the main milestones which in 2008 led to the story starring Julio Milostich, Sigrid Alegría and Álvaro Rudolphy to become a legend.
The milestones that marked the original version of “El Señor de la Querencia”
It was the first period nighttime soap opera. Since TVN inaugurated the nighttime slot with “Ídolos” in 2004, the story written by Víctor Carrasco was the first to move to another era. In addition, “El Señor de la Querencia” marked the return of period productions to the state channel after the failure of “Los Capo” in 2005.
One of the most tuned. The TVN soap opera had an average of 27.5 points throughout its broadcast. In its last episode, remembered for the family massacre, the people meter reached a peak of 51 points.
He operated the television crane. The actor after José Luis EcheniqueJulio Milostich, debuted on TVN after years in the drama area of Channel 13. In addition, Antonia Santa Mariawho was also part of the cast of the private channel, landed on the public channel playing the remembered Violetita.
Alegría and Rudolphy as a television couple. The actors had starred “Aquelarre” and “Holy Thief”in the early 2000s. And although in “Someone is watching you” Their characters were close, in “El Señor de la Querencia” Sigrid and Álvaro once again interpreted a love story.
Lesbian story. Herminia Pradenas (Begoña Basauri) and Lucrecia Santa María (Lorena Bosh) were the couple that stole the show in 2008 as they were one of the first relationships between women in Chilean soap operas. Although they brought freshness to the screen, the end for both was tragic.
Crudeness and evil. But without a doubt, the element that marked the audience was the delirium and evil that José Luis Echenique showed throughout the story; physical and sexual violence and murders. The icing on the cake was his last chapter, when the farm owner killed a large part of his family and then committed suicide in the family chapel. Scenes that, until then, were not abundant in Creole soap operas.
