Marimar (2023 BBC Series)

Marimar is a 2023 British Crime Drama Romance Series produced by Guillermo del Toro for the BBC, based on the original 1994 Mexican Telenovela for Televisa by Ines Sheridan. The cast includes Daniela Bobadilla and Jack Bannon as the Protagonists, with Emma Corrin, Gael Garcia Bernal, Kevin McNally, Sean Pertwee and Eddie Marsan as the antagonist. Major actors include Toks Olagundoye, Ana Brenda Contreras, Jared Harris, Diego Luna, Sonia Manzano, Danny Trejo, David Tennant, Stephanie Beatriz, Olivia Hallinan, Corinna Harfouch and Robert Carlyle. It is the 1st series to focus on the Latin American Community of the United Kingdom.
Plot:
A young girl named Marimar meets and falls in love with a homebound law student named Sergio, but then things spiral out of control for the newlyweds when her grandparents are mysteriously murdered shortly after Sergio's father, Renato and his adopted sister Angelica leave for Bristol. Feeling betrayed, the couple takes on new identities and conspire to not only save their marriage, but to avenge themselves amidst a violent crime wave afflicting Bristol and the discovery of a secret past that not only brings them closer, but connects them to a terrorist conspiracy that threatens the whole of England.
Changes between the original Telenovela and the British version.
- In the original telenovela, Angelica was the main antagonist, the spiteful ex-girlfriend of Sergio who married his father for his wealth and hated Marimar for being poor, responsible for framing her for theft and ordering the murder of her grandparents. The Angelica in this version is the tritagonist of the series, depicted as Sergio's older adoptive sister and Marimar's biological older sister, whose role is to find and protect the latter two from the main antagonists.
- One of the original characters of the reboot is Marimar's paternal grandfather, Lord Robert Aldama, a corrupt businessman who made his wealth from the suffering of millions worldwide, was even cruel to his family, was obsessed with immortality and an architect of the Falklands War who perished in a ship Collision with the fictional HMS Olympic, but his ghost continues to plague Marimar and her family. 
-In the original Telenovela, Marimar was depicted living in poverty with her maternal grandparents and oblivious to her father's whereabouts. Here, she's depicted as an engine polisher for the Bluebell Railway and she's under joint custody of her grandparents and father, while the rags-to-riches plot is given to Renato.
- In the original telenovela, Marimar wanted revenge on the Santibañez family for the humiliations she suffered by them, going to prison after Angelica accused her of stealing a bracelet the latter forced her to get by picking it up with her mouth and ordering the murder of her grandparents. In the British version, Marimar seeks revenge because she believes Angelica was trying to steal her family from her and she pushed her into a mud puddle to humiliate her (when in fact, she was saving her from Ned 'Viper' Harris) and for her and Renato leaving East Grinstead right before the fire that killed her grandparents, as well as for Sergio who was sent to prison after being accused of being the murderer.
- One of biggest changes of the series regards the role of Sergio. Unlike the arrogant football player from the original Telenovela who married Marimar initially as an attempt to spite his family, the character is an Cambridge university valedictorian and social activist who marries Marimar after befriending her and they marry when she becomes pregnant. He develops his own alter-ego of Police inspector Nigel Hyde after Marimar's grandparents are murdered in a fire and he's arrested. He is also given a mentor in the new character of Chief Inspector Isambard Barnaby.
- In the original telenovela, Renato Santibañez was one of the antagonists, subservient to Angelica. Here, the character is rewritten as the surrogate son of Marimar's grandparents, thus making him Marimar's surrogate uncle before becoming her father-in-law, the widower of the late Julia Young, lover to Corazon and a close friend of Father Porras and Gustavo Aldama. 
- The character of Corazon the housekeeper is rewritten to match the role of Mrs. Beakley in the Ducktales Reboot. Thus, she's the lover of Renato and the surrogate mother of Sergio and Angelica. Despite aiding Marimar in her quest for revenge, she's also determined to prove Renato and Angelica's innocence. 
- One of the central characters, Father Porres is rewritten as Father Wilbert Porras, a Catholic priest and a royal navy veteran of the Falklands War, whose brother-in-arms is the evil Bart Cusack and whose past plays a part in the plot of the series.
-In the original Telenovela, the main settings were the towns of San Martin de la Costa and Valle Encantado in Veracruz. Here, the main setting is the town of East Grinstead in West Sussex and Bristol in South West England. San Martin is still mentioned as the name of the pub owned by Marimar's grandparents and Valle Encantado is the name of the ship where Robert Aldama dies.
-In the original Telenovela, Rudolf Sangenis was depicted as a sleazy womanizer who had an obsession with Marimar. Here, the character is rewritten as the main antagonist, Bart Cusack: a disgraced royal navy officer and veteran of the Falklands War turned anarchist whose nihilistic personality serves as a dark contrast to both Marimar and Sergio.
- Ana Brenda Conteras, who plays the role of Aunt Hope Aldama played the role of Maricruz in the Telenovela Corazon Indomable, which itself is a remake of Marimar. She's also given a husband in the form of Dr. Leonidas Beaumont. 
- In the original telenovela, the villain Nicandro is responsible for introducing Marimar to Sergio, murdering Marimar's grandparents by burning down their house by orders of Angelica shortly before he's murdered by Renato. In the reboot, he's replaced and bifurcated into the criminals Victor Leland and Ned 'Viper' Harris. Leland is responsible for introducing Marimar to Sergio and is shot by the former, while Harris is responsible for causing the quarrel between Marimar and Angelica, plotting the murder of Marimar's grandparents and is murdered by Angelica. 
- Several new characters have been added that aren't present in the original Telenovela, Such as Chief Constable Isambard Barnaby, Dr. Leonidas Beaumont, Elliot Warner, Jackie Leland, Goodman Applecheeks, British Prime Minister Donald Simpson, US agent Winfield Sparrow, US president Harvey Sutherland, East Grinstead Stationmaster Didi Hallinan, Julia Young Santibañez, Alistair Young, Michigan Lightfoot and Louie Stillman.
Cast
Daniella Bobadilla as Marimar Perez Olivares Aldama Santibañez/Belle Aldama Hyde
Jack Bannon as Thomas Sergio Santibañez/Chief Inspector Nigel Hyde
Emma Corrin as Magda Angelica Perez Olivares Aldama/Nurse Lucille Narvaez 
Gael García Bernal as Renato Santibañez/Gordy Cistern 
Mark Moraghan as the voice of Pulgoso the Dog
Toks Olagundoye as Corazon Saldana-Santibañez 
Kevin McNally as Father Wilbert Porras
Sean Pertwee as Chief Constable Isambard Barnaby
Sonia Manzano as Mama Cruz Perez Olivares 
Danny Trejo as Papa Pancho Perez Olivares 
Diego Luna as Gustavo Aldama 
Ana Brenda Conteras as Dr. Hope Aldama-Beaumont 
Jared Harris as Dr. Leonidas Beaumont
Eddie Marsan as Captain Bart Cusack/Rudolf Sangenis
Robert Carlyle as Lord Robert Aldama
Category:Remakes
Category:Drama Shows
Category:Romance
Category:Crime Drama