Wrestling Biopic Cassandro Gets Release Date, New Image

Cassandro garnered a lot of buzz at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, and the wrestling biopic now has a release date. Amazon Studios has announced that the film, which is about the life of the famed exotico wrestler, will release on September 15th in theaters followed by a September 23rd release on Prime Video. The studio also released a new image from the film, which you can check out below.

The movie is directed by Roger Ross Williams from a script he co-wrote with David Teague. It stars Gael García Bernal, Roberta Colindrez, Perla de la Rosa, Joaquín Cosío, and Raúl Castillo with special appearances from El Hijo del Santo and Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio. The synopsis reads:

When Saúl Armendáriz (Gael García Bernal) starts competing in the macho world of Mexican Lucha Libre wrestling, he’s always cast as the runt. After he meets Sabrina (Roberta Colindrez), Saúl gains not only a professional trainer but also a friend who helps him create a new character in the ring. Together they debut ‘Cassandro,’ a radical subversion of Lucha Libre’s stereotypical role known as the Exótico. Flamboyant and powerful, Cassandro turns lucha on its head. But Cassandro also upends Saúl’s own life, throwing into tumult his relationships with his mother Yocasta, his secret lover Gerardo, and his absent father Eduardo.

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