ANTONIO BANDERAS TO PLAY CONQUISTADOR HERNAN CORTES IN A NEW HISTORICAL MOVIE

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TO PLAY CONQUISTADOR HERNAN CORTES

Antonio Banderas will take the lead

We had a series a few years ago about him, but now Antonio Banderas will topline CORTES historical movie portraying the infamous conquistador. Helmed by French director Paul Mignot it will be set in 1519, beginning in Cuba, where a restless soldier hungry for glory seizes command of an expedition to the Yucatán and sails without permission. After landing on the coast of what is now Mexico, he meets Marina, an enslaved Indigenous woman and gifted linguist who becomes indispensable to his advance. As Cortés turns fragile alliances, faith, and fear into instruments of conquest, Marina watches him transform from a daring outlaw into a self-anointed messiah.