Eugenio Derbez returns to television with a comedy in which he will give life to Dracula

After participating in the film ‘CODA’ and with the upcoming premiere of ‘Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe’, the Mexican actor Eugenio Derbez he takes a break at film festivals to star in a television series, where he will return to work in comedy as he did several years ago.

In 2021, the actor Eugenio Derbez confessed that he is interested in leaving comedy behind as for years he has been directly linked to this genre in which he grew up as an artist, and is interested in immersing himself in other roles as he did in the drama ‘CODA’, however the streaming platform VIX + has caught his attention with ‘They came in the night’, where he will give birth to Dracula.

TelevisaUnivision has started working on original productions for its streaming platform called VIX +like the biographical series about María Félix, and soon they will start working on the recordings of “They came at night”, a new comedy in which the famous Eugenio Derbez will participate as executive producer and protagonist of the story.

I haven’t worked on scripts for Spanish TV comedies for over ten years and I was looking for something really special to come back to, ”said Eugenio Derbez.

In an official statement shared by The Hollywood reporterMexican Eugeniio Derbez explains that for more than 10 years he has been away from television with comic scripts, but VIX + caught his attention with “They Came at Night” and that is why he decided to go back to his origins.

Eugenio Derbez on his new comedy series on VIX +

“This story really caught my attention because it tells the story of the Latins who must always achieve more with less resources and more difficult conditions. “Eugenio Derbez explains the plot that will follow this new original VIX + TV series where he becomes the same Dracula from the 1930 film.

According to this statement from the actor, ‘The came at night’ shows “a world we have never explored on television in Spanish: Hollywood in the 1930s“, As the story tells how a group of Latins recreates in a Spanish version, the film ‘dracula’in the 1930s, before the dubbing industry even existed.

At the moment this new VIX + series does not have a definite release date, however it is a fact that it will see Eugenio Derbez return to comedy, where he will give birth to a man tasked with playing Dracula in the early 1930s in Hollywood; As if that weren’t enough, the Mexican actor assures that ‘The Came in the Night’ has great opportunities for comedy.