Gael will play Toto, who wants to be a singer. Diego will play Beto, who wants to be a football player. The film tells the story of two brothers who wants to be “someone in life” and that put brotherhood, passion and talent to the test.

It should be release in December of this year.

GALLERY LINK – Blindness (2008) > Official Poster

Perhaps the most touching moment of the weekend came when diminutive Mexican heartthrob Gael Garcia Bernal accepted the Excellence in Acting Award. “I feel like Miss Mexico,” he said through tears. Tarantino (who recieved the award Filmmaker on the Edge Award), of course, could not resist a reply, cooing “I feel like Miss Guatemala.”

Source: Boston.Com

Update! And here’s another piece of article about it:

Bernal said he appreciated the honor “very much” and that he’s “been lucky” in his career. Of his forthcoming film, Blindness, he can only say, “I saw it once and I thought it was interesting, and then I saw it again and I have much hope for it.”

Source: Advocate

The film is the first co-production between Cha Cha Cha and Universal Studios.

Last June, during a break from filming, Carlos Cuaron, the film director, said the history does not seem at all to “Y Tu Mama Tambien”, which he was the screenwriter. “Two years ago, in a restaurant, I talked to the two of them (Gael and Diego), without the script, and they loved the idea. More than a friendship, the film is about brotherhood (…). Football is just the context (…)”, he said.

This is the directorial debut of Carlos Cuaron, Alfonso Cuaron’s younger brother. The shooting of the film ended at mid-August last year.

Source: El Siglo de Torreon

GALLERY LINKS
- 2008 Public Events: “Deficit” Mexico City Premiere (May 26)