Film on Zapata, Mexican revolutionary, sets record

By Hollywood standards, $10 million isn't a lot of money to spend on a major motion picture. But by the standards of Mexican cinema, it's a huge amount. That's approximately what Mexican filmmaker Alfonso Arau is spending for a film on the life of the revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata. A few years ago, after Arau tried but failed to get financing for a Hollywood version of the film, he says an apparition of Zapata came to him in a dream and insisted that he go ahead and do the movie anyway. "Do not betray me," he recalls Zapata telling him. "You must do this in Mexico and you must do it in Spanish." The film, scheduled to be released in Mexico in 2004, will be the most expensive Mexican film ever. Learn more... (Source: Hollywood Reporter)