There are projects that attract attention because of the people who are involved in front of or behind the cameras. Others get that attention because of the story they cover, although it is becoming increasingly difficult for studios to commit to new ideas. But, in the case of Celeste, the interest comes in both ways: it is written by Diego San José, who has just signed the corrosive trilogy of Vota Juan, Vamos Juan and Venga Juan with Javier Cámara, and a crazy plot, inspired by the Shakira's recent trial.
The challenge, as he himself confesses, is to create “a dizzying thriller” around the grayest character that crossed his mind: “a 60-year-old tax inspector, who lives alone and has no special skills. Celeste, therefore, wants to be a “persecution to the limit within a gray and depressing universe” like that of the Tax Agency. And, if you are still not convinced, you just have to see the references. “She is like Zodiac but with personal income tax,” San José jokes (or not).
The theme, however, goes further when reading the entire synopsis:
Celeste is the big star of Latin music. Her songs are a global phenomenon. Her concerts fill stadiums. She has her own perfume, her own brand of lingerie and a long mane of hair promoting her own shampoo. But this series is not about her.
The real protagonist of Celeste is Sara Santano, a tax inspector who has dedicated her entire life to collecting taxes. That is the only thing she has done since she took her exams as a twenty-something until today, after more than thirty years dedicated to the Tax Agency, the time has come to retire early. Or so she thought.
Because on the last day he receives the most important assignment of his career: to prove that Celeste, the great Latin star, resides in Spain and has to pay her taxes here. A mission on which twenty million euros depend for the Spanish coffers. To do this, Sara will have to put her life aside to go through Celeste's and prove that she spent 184 days here. Half the year plus one.
In short, the author of the scripts for films such as Pagafantas, No controls, 8 Basque surnames, Fe de etarras or Superlópez, which he wrote with Borja Cobeaga, plans to write a (we imagine) comic and fast-paced thriller inspired by the persecution of Shakira, accused of defrauding 14.5 million between 2012 and 2014.
The Colombian singer, who had her family home in Esplugues de Llobregat when she was in a relationship with Gerard Piqué, had declared her residence in the Bahamas. In November she finally reached an agreement with the prosecution in which she accepted the charges, a three-year prison sentence (which she will not have to serve due to lack of criminal record) and the payment of a fine of 7.3 million.
