In 2018 came the news that “Jane the Virgin’ star Gina Rodriguez was set to lead and co-produce a live-action “Carmen Sandiego” movie for Netflix.
The film was in addition to the 2019 animated series in which Rodriguez voices the globe-hopping master thief character from the famed 1990s educational video game series. Two seasons of that show have aired to very good reviews with a third coming on October 1st.
Recently out promoting Miranda July’s “Kajillionaire,” Rodriguez was asked by Collider how the live-action film version was going and what were her goals for the character:
“Duane [Capizzi] who did the animation… is a brilliant man and did such a phenomenal job at creating this world because, I mean, I grew up with Carmen Sandiego and it was mostly the PBS game and it was mostly the computer game, but you didn’t really know anything about her.
So Duane created this entire incredibly intertwined beautiful story with backstory and all that, and so with the live-action, ideally we would be able to create multiple films. But to bring in this first film, it is really imperative to us to create this iconic character that we loved, right? That we didn’t know much about, and give her a really solid story that we all fall in love with.
So that’s the unique challenge that we are working on, but I’m really excited and hopeful because it’s coming together great.”
From the sounds of it the project is still very much in the developmental phase. The first two seasons of the animated series are available now on Netflix.
