JAVIER BARDEM'S 16TH CENTURY EPIC SERIES ON HERNAN CORTES FINDS ITS EMPEROR MOCTEZUMA & PRINCESS MARINA!

'CORTES' EPIC SERIES

ADS CAST TO THE AZTEC COURT

Javier Bardem will take the lead role

Last year's series Hernan over at History Channel and Amazon Prime turned out to be a rather monotonous mess, but now we are getting a new chance to view another series on the infamous explorer as Amazon is preparing new historical series CORTES in which, as I've already informed you, the lead role will go to Javier Bardem. The new update is that he is now being joined by Tenoch Huerta as Moctezuma, the tyrant Emperor of the Aztecs, and Yoshira Escárrega as Marina, strategic partner and translator who betrayed her own people to become consort to Hernán Cortés.

The Four Part Mini Series
created by Schindler List's Steven Zaillian, will chart the inexorable march and eventual clash between infamous Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés

Yoshira Escarrega and Tenoch Huerta will play the locals

and Aztec Emperor Moctezuma II, leading to the annihilation of an empire and tragic downfall of a civilization that took centuries to build, but less than two years to destroy.

FIRST PHOTOS AND TRAILER FROM AMAZON PRIME'S EPIC TV SERIES HERNAN ON THE INFAMOUS CONQUISTADOR HERNAN CORTES!

  'HERNAN' EPIC TV SERIES ON

THE INFAMOUS CONQUISTADOR!

Oscar Jaenada plays the lead role

I almost forgot about this one, but our spies over at Costumical World have reminded us of it today! A year or so ago your trusted spy informed you that Mexican Azteca TV is preparing a television saga on HERNAN Cortes, the infamous conquistador, and now we have the first photos and a trailer for the eight part historical extravaganza which will launch in Mexico November 24th and will later on air also in History Channel Latin America and Amazon Prime around the world! This one is, of course, not to be confused with Steven Spielberg's Cortes series also at Amazon which will see Javier

The new series launches in Mexico next month

Bardem playing the man who will destroy the empire of King Montezuma II. That one will have four episodes and we are waiting to hear the rest of the casting for it.

  The Story Of The Series
Marking the 500th Anniversary of Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes’ arrival in Mexico, the series is set in 1519, following the conquest of

The series is considered to be the most expensive Hispanic show ever

Mexico by Cortés and his troops, and also featuring key characters’ perspectives of this tumultuous time in Mexico and Spain’s history. The series

The series will also air on History Channel in Latin America

aims to highlight both the encounter and contrast of these two cultures as well as the human side of Cortes, a skilled diplomat and a military genius who was beloved and despised in equal measure. The story of Cortes is full of

Hernan will air on Amazon Prime in the rest of the world

fascination for an unknown land, of passion for a people he could not control, betrayal within Cortés' own family and an unexpected love for La Malinche.

Who Is In The Cast?

The most expensive Hispanic series in history is led by Spanish actor Oscar Jaenada as the conquistador. The cast also included Víctor Clavijo

Gorgeous Miguel Angel Amor plays the goodhearted Bernal Diaz in the series

(Captain Cristóbal de Olid), Michel Brown (Captain Alvarado), Miguel Angel Amor (Bernal) whose performance in the series is the absolute gem of the whole drama as he plays the goodhearted soldier with deep compassion

Handsome Almagro San Miguel is Gonzalo de Sandoval in the series

and expressiveness, Dagoberto Gama (Moctezuma), Jorge Guerrero (Xiconténcatl), Almagro San Miguel (Captain Sandoval), Isabel Bautista (Marina / Malinche) and Aura Garrido (Doña Juana).

HERNAN CORTES BESTSELLER 'CONQUISTADOR' BY BUDDY LEVY TO BECOME EPIC TV SERIES! WERNER HERZOG TO BUILD A TOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF AMAZON JUNGLE IN PERIOD SET 'FORDLANDIA' TV SERIES!

 'CONQUISTADOR' MINI SERIES

 ON INFAMOUS HERNAN CORTES

Epic news people! Overbrook Entertainment and Motor (they did Knightfall) have bought TV series rights on best selling book

The series will be based on Buddy Levy book

CONQUISTADOR Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs by Buddy Levy with intention to turn it into mini series. It brings the tragic tale of conquest and defeat, of colonization and resistance, of empires won and civilizations lost and of the violent confluence of two empires previously unknown to each other. It’s the epic account of Hernan Cortes, one of the greatest conquerors history has ever known, and Montezuma, the complex leader of the ancient civilization that he would oppose. Their stories culminate in the cataclysmic battle that would be the end of one world and the making of a new one.
SIMILAR ANNOUNCED PROJECTS

The spy has informed you that Spielberg is preparing CORTES series with Javier Bardem for Amazon, and that  Roland Emmerich is preparing a movie MAYA LORD set at about the same time.

  'FORDLANDIA' SERIES

 WERNER HERZOG TO DIRECT AMAZON JUNGLE 1920'S SHOW

The Non Fiction book almost won Pulitzer in 2010

Another book to be turned into a possible TV series is Greg Grandin's FORDLANDIA to be directed by famous Werner Herzog and written by Oscar nominee Christopher Wilkinson. The book, which almost won Pulitzer Prize back in 2010, tells the extraordinary true story of the richest man in the world in the 1920s, Henry Ford, and his attempt to re-create small town America deep in the heart of the Amazon jungle. This won't be the first Amazonian adventure project for Herzog, as he already directed Amazon set Fitzcaraldo back in the eighties!