“The fans are the reason the films are so successful,” Banks tells the BBC. “The visibility of it and where it lives is so much on social media.”
This film is the latest chapter in an unlikely success story that began not in Hollywood, but on the reading platform Wattpad, where the Argentine-born Spanish writer Ron first published the Culpables trilogy.
The books – called Culpa Mia, Culpa Tuya and Culpa Nuestra were all written before she was aged 20, external, and after launching on Wattpad, they went on to became bestsellers, and hugely popular with teenagers.
They were then adapted into a hugely successful series of Spanish-language films, simply titled Your Fault.
The English-language version of the story – Your Fault: London, story follows Noah, who moves to the capital city after her mother marries a wealthy businessman.
Noah falls for the businessman’s son, Nick. The step-siblings’ romance is tested by family tensions, buried secrets and their own impulsive decisions.
Nicole Clemens, head of UK and international originals at Amazon MGM Studios, says the Culpables films have collectively reached 100 million viewers worldwide, external.
The films were number one in more than 170 countries at launch, with over 90% of viewers coming from outside Spain, Amazon said in February.