EL CID EPIC SERIES
LEGEND! HERO! TRAITOR!
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El Cid epic TV series started December 18th
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The biggest epic treat in the prefestive week behind us was no doubt the premiere of Spanish historical saga
EL CID which started on
Amazon Prime this Friday! If I'm not mistaken this is the last period set series that we will see this year. In the five episode series Spanish star
Jaime Lorente plays Ruy Díaz de Vivar, a young 11th century squire who loyally serves his master, Sancho, the future King of León and Castile. While he fights to come out on top in the court thanks to his
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| Jaime Lorente takes the lead role of the war hero El Cid |
natural talent with a sword, he gets caught up in a conspiracy to overthrow the King, which would cause as much bloodshed, pain, and death in the Christian Kingdoms as it would in the Muslim taifas!
WHAT IS EL CID ALL ABOUT?Shot on a set of more than 43,000 square feet, with natural settings, hundreds of extras,
special effects, eight screen writers and a team of more than 200
professionals and 11,000 people involved,
Amazon's new Spanish
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Francisco Ortiz is the future king of Spain Sancho
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language epic series
EL CID
is one of the most ambitious original Amazon
productions to date in all of Europe and the largest historical series
ever shot
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| The lavish series is wildly epic in its production scale |
in Castilian Spanish. Popular Spanish actor
Jaime Lorente plays the lead role of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar in a series revolving around the legendary
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| More than 11,000 people took part in the shooting of the series |
medieval war hero, whose deeds inspired one of the most
important of medieval Spanish epic poems,
El Cantar de Mio Cid. Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar is
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| Two times Oscar winner Gustavo Santaolalla wrote the music |
a fascinating figure, a true hero whose exploits have been perpetuated over the centuries and who has been played by Charlton
Heston in the famous classic
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| The first season will air in 5 episodes with the second one in plan |
Hollywood movie. He lived in times when the
struggles for power and the coexistence of cultures turned the Iberian
Peninsula into a border between two worlds in conflict. The series was
directed by
Adolfo Martínez with two-
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| Jose Velasco is El Cid's show runner and creator |
time Oscar winning composer
Gustavo Santaolalla (Brokeback
Mountain, Babel) writing the original music. The series was shot in Soria and also in
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Zohar Liba is Arab doctor Abu Bakr
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Burgos and Aragon, where the
Sultanate of Zaragoza was recreated.
Amazon Prime will air the series in more than 200 countries around the world.
Who Is In The Cast?
Jaime Lorente plays Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, accompanied by José
Luis García Pérez in the role of King Fernando I the Great, Elia Galera
as Queen Sancha la Bella, Carlos Bardem as the Count of León and Juan
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El Cid will air this year, I'm guessing around holidays
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Echanove in the role of bishop. Alicia Sanz joins the team as the
InfantaUrraca, Francisco Ortiz will be Sancho the Strong, Jaime Olías
will play Alfonso VI, Lucía Guerrero is Jimena, Lucía Díez will be the
Infanta
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| The series was produced by Zebra Productions |
Elvira,
Nicolás Illoro is King García,
Juan Fernández is
Rodrigo,the El Cid's grandfather,
Pablo Álvarez will be Orduño,
Ginés García Millán will be King Ramiro de Navarra,
Daniel
Tatay is Beltrán the son of Ramiro,
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The first marks for the series aren't currently overly favourable
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David Castillo is the squire
Lisardo and Álvaro Rico is Nuño. The cast is completed by Amr Waked, who
plays the Sultan of Zaragoza Al-Muqtadir and Zohar Liba as Abu Bakr.
That sounds good. I like movies set in Medieval times too.
ReplyDeleteThe Charlton Heston classic version was very popular back in the days.
DeleteThe first marks may not be overly favorable, but I bet it does quite well once it hits the mainstream audience. I was intrigued by the trailer.
ReplyDeleteI think some viewers are pissed that Muslims are depicted as vine drinkers and savages, at least that is why some gave it a bad mark at IMDB.
DeleteI really enjoy period pieces, and have been watching lots of them lately. This one sounds like lots will be going on and very interesting. Hugs, RO
ReplyDeletePeriod pieces are the love of our lives here at the spy's :) Hugs to you as well.
DeleteI want to watch it, I like this history :)
ReplyDeleteI love it too!
ReplyDeleteDid you watch it last Friday? This is one of the ones that I was looking forward to. Is it living up to the hype?
ReplyDeleteI haven't yet, I might next week since I finished BLACK NARCISSUS and will have an empty Monday evening series spot for watching.
DeleteDIZMOND what about VIKINGS VALHALLA and please tell us if there are any upcoming medieval historical productions
ReplyDeleteValhalla is still shooting as far as I know. Not sure if we will get it this year, if we do probably next winter. I will do a list of epic shows to expect in 2021 soon, so stay tuned. But so far the year looks gloomy, sadly.
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