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AF México has secured the remake rights to Buen Camino, the Italian box-office hit starring Checco Zalone, and is preparing a Latin American adaptation of the film under the title Un camino muy padre.

The move reinforces Latin America as one of AF México’s key strategic priorities and expands the company’s growing slate of remakes and adaptations based on successful international IP. The company is already producing Amor y mente, the Mexican remake of Paolo Genovese’s Italian hit film Follemente. AF México has also acquired the rights to Perro blanco, Perro negro and to the original screenplay behind Amores perros, with plans to develop a fiction series in creative collaboration with Guillermo Arriaga.

The original Buen Camino tells the story of a reluctant father who embarks on a walking pilgrimage through France and Spain in search of his missing daughter. Along the way, the journey becomes a personal transformation, forcing him to confront his own limits and learn how to become a better man.

In the Italian film, Checco Zalone plays Checco, the spoiled heir to a wealthy sofa-manufacturing empire. When his teenage daughter disappears, he is forced to leave behind his comfortable life and follow her trail along the Camino de Santiago, the famous spiritual pilgrimage route that attracts thousands of walkers every year and ends in Santiago de Compostela.

The Mexican adaptation, Un camino muy padre, comes at an important moment for AF México, just ahead of the theatrical release of Hasta el fin del mundo, starring Aislinn Derbez and Mauricio Ochmann. Produced by AF, the film will be distributed by Disney in cinemas across Mexico from July 23.