El General
At the crossroads of Mexico’s most turbulent century stood three men who would shape a nation — Benito Juárez, Porfirio Díaz, and Ignacio Mejía. El General follows the remarkable true story of General Ignacio Mejía, a warrior-statesman whose life traced the arc of Mexico’s fight for sovereignty, from the liberal dreams of Oaxaca to the imperial grandeur of Mexico City.
Mejía is the forgotten cornerstone of this historic triumvirate: loyal to Juárez’s republican ideals, wary of Díaz’s rising ambition, and resolute in his commitment to the rule of law. When Emperor Maximilian is captured, it is Mejía who signs the death warrant, a fateful decision that defines not only the collapse of empire, but Mejía’s own place in the volatile soul of his homeland.
Torn between loyalty and legacy, El General explores how one man’s unwavering principles guided him through betrayal, revolution, and the burden of making history, even when it meant ending a life to preserve a nation.
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Brian Kryszewski de YbarrondoWriter
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Project Type:Screenplay, Television Script
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Number of Pages:42
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First-time Screenwriter:No
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Student Project:No
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Manhattan International Screenplay Awards
Best TV/Web Series Winner
Brian Kryszewski de Ybarrondo is a Texas-based author and storyteller whose work explores the intersection of technology, spirituality, and cultural memory. His writing blends emotional realism with speculative insight, often examining how belief systems, ancestral narratives, and emerging ideas shape identity and human connection. Through his imprint, Legacy Publishing Agency LLC, and its creative studio, Legacy Studio Originals, he develops projects that span historical fiction, futurism, and spiritually introspective storytelling. His work frequently centers on the unseen forces, cultural, emotional, and metaphysical, that influence the way we understand place, purpose, and lineage. El General, is a Pilot adapted for TV Limited Series.
I wrote El General, as a disclosure of my third great-grandfather, General Ignacio Mejía, a name often left in the shadows of Mexican history. Alongside Benito Juárez and Porfirio Díaz, Mejía formed a powerful triumvirate from Oaxaca that helped define the republic’s liberal foundations.
While Juárez governed and Díaz later seized power, Mejía remained a steady moral compass, loyal to the ideals they once shared. His decision to sign Emperor Maximilian’s death warrant, though reluctant, marked a turning point in the nation’s fight for sovereignty.
This story is about conviction, sacrifice, and the cost of standing firm when others choose ambition. Through Mejía, I sought to illuminate a quieter kind of heroism, one rooted in principle, not power.
