Eva plans romantic comedy to be filmed in S.A. in 2007
Web Posted: 04/22/2006 12:00 AM CDT
Jeanne Jakle
Express-News Media Columnist
Actress Eva Longoria said she and Touchstone Pictures would make a movie next year in her second home of San Antonio.
"It's huge, huge, huge!" the "Desperate Housewives" star said by phone from Los Angeles, adding her goal, for a long time, has been to encourage more filming in her native Lone Star State. Besides, it will allow her to spend extended time with her beau, San Antonio Spur Tony Parker.
Longoria said the romantic comedy, "Deep in the Heart of Texas," will include San Antonio's weeklong party, Fiesta; the River Walk; and lots of other picturesque locales. She said filming likely will take place in April, May and June of next year.
According to Hollywood trade publications, Longoria will play a spoiled ad executive in Beverly Hills who is transferred to San Antonio to run the new Latin arm of her agency. Out of touch with her Mexican roots and unable to speak Spanish, she's like a fish out of water. Worse, the story has her Anglo S.A. boss speaking fluent Spanish and more in touch with the Hispanic culture than she is.
It's a dream come true, she said. She not only will be showing off her city, but also will be working days here and spending nights with Parker. Her mom and dad also live in the Alamo City.
Longoria
"San Antonio is such a character in itself," she added, so it had to be the right project. When writers Pam Buchignati and Lynnette Ramirez pitched her the concept, she jumped. It was sold to Touchstone on Thursday, she said. According to an article in the Hollywood Reporter, Rachel Pfeffer will produce it through her Disney-based Pfeffer Film banner.
Longoria is executive producer; she said that gives her a say in picking the director, the cast and locations. She said the first two weeks of the shoot would take place in Los Angeles, because that's where the story begins. As for other actors, "we have some offers out," she said. "It will be a fun cast."
San Antonio Film Marketing Manager Drew Mayer-Oakes said: "I'm pleased Longoria is so keen to bring the film and its economic impact to our city, a place she obviously cares about." He was a little concerned because most big-studio projects go to states with financial incentives.
San Antonio just lost a Disney project — "Daddy's Little Girl" with The Rock — because of that issue, he said.
Longoria is confident that won't happen with "Deep in the Heart of Texas." Since it's based in San Antonio, she said, "they couldn't film it in New Mexico or anywhere else."
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That's pretty cool. I wonder who her co-stars will be. Seems like a cute chick-flick.
Ohh, what would be cooler is if Tony made a cameo appearance in the film! Like Eva and her love interest in the film could take in a Spurs game in the movie...and they can show clips of Tony, Tim, Bruce, etc.
I just hope it doesn't flop.
i would go and see it. sound like a fun movie.
cool
I'm offended by her using the metaphor of a mexican as a "fish out of water", what exactly is she implying?
It was implying that,by living in San Antonio she is a fish out water due to the fact she doesn't speak spanish,as many ppl here in SA do.
Mexican water, do all mexicans come from water?
Oh, quit yer ing and post the damn tunnel pic, trainwreck
There is a time and place for everything, and I have something "special" plannedOh, quit yer ing and post the damn tunnel pic, trainwreck
So until my certain events come to fruition. Here's a bird stealing something from a joey
prosecution rests
Maybe Eva will give me a role in her film- or at least bring me in as an extra.
Operation .
I bet Linday Lohan plays the mean and ty co-worker.
San Antonio is too small a market to make a movie in.
I didnt think Mexico had water.
Too late TIMVP
they filmed Ms Congeniality here.
Don't forget Rolling Thunder and Cloak and Dagger.
never heard of either of those.....
Timvp was joking at my expence.
You're my age and hadn't heard of Cloak and Dagger?!?
To Blockbuster with you!
So many neat places around here to film.
We should all pitch in and make a movie. But hire Vanessa Macias as the star.
Eva way too expensive.
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