PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON NEW HIGH END ADVENTURE MINI TV SERIES LA FORTUNA IN WHICH STANLEY TUCCI IS STEALING THE TREASURE OF ATLANTIS!

  LA FORTUNA TV SERIES 

STEALING LOST TREASURES

La Fortuna will hit Movistar this September

Admit it, you like Stanley Tucci just as much as we like that smooth, elegant hunk of a man. His new series LA FORTUNA will arrive to Spanish Movistar + this September and later this Winter to AMC as well. Inspired by the popular Spanish graphic novel "El Tesoro del Cisne Negro" ("The Treasure of the Black Swan") by Paco Roca and Guillermo Corral, the six part limited series sees Stanley Tucci playing treasure hunter Frank Wild, who travels the world plundering historic items from the ocean, alongside Álvaro Mel, who plays inexperienced diplomat Alex Ventura, and Ana Polvorosa, as Alex's colleague in work and adventure, Lucia.

  LA FORTUNA TV SERIES

is an adventure thriller straddling the historical voyage of the fated Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes and the modern day legal battle for the treasure claimed to be worth $500 million.

 

 LA FORTUNA WAS CREATED

by Academy Award winner Alejandro Amenábar who also co wrote it together with Alejandro Hernandez. Amenábar is also slated to make his

La Fortuna will air in six fortyfive minute long episodes

television directorial debut directing all six episodes. Additional casting includes Clarke Peters as attorney Jonas Pierce, and T'Nia Miller as attorney Susan McLean. Rounding out the main cast are Karra Elejalde,

AMC will air the series in USA, Canada and South America

Manolo Solo, Blanca Portillo and Pedro Casablanc. The series was a part of the official selection over at the highly controversial San Sebastian Film Festival which is currently on in Spain. 

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON 19TH CENTURY HISTORICAL ADVENTURE TV SERIES LIBERTAD WHICH ARRIVES TO MOVISTAR THIS SPRING

  LIBERTAD EPIC TV SERIES 

COMING FROM SPAIN IN MARCH

Here's the latest period set project coming to us from Spain: five episode historical series LIBERTAD will arrive to Spanish streamer Movistar this

The series arrives to Movistar March 26th

spring, March 26th set in the 19th century Spain. Earlier this winter Movistar scored success with another period set series - time spanning saga Tell Me Who I Am, and now they will try their luck with this series which features mostly outdoor scenes and had finished production exactly a week before the national lockdown was proclaimed in Spain last March. At the same time, while the new series is airing over at Movistar, a two hour movie will be released in cinemas ahead of Easter so the audience can pick which format to watch. They are hoping the release will give a boost to Spanish flagging box office.

 THE STORY OF LIBERTAD

A woman nicknamed La Llanera (played by Spanish singer Bebe) is released in 1807, in the wake of the French revolution (which inspired Spain to proclaim Spain a constitutional monarchy in 1812), from prison after 17 years

Simultaneously with the series, a film will be released in cinemas

spent in it. During her confinement, she had been sent to the gallows every year only to be pardoned at the last moment. Her son Juan (Jason Fernandez) was born in the cell and does not know his father, the famous bandit Lagartijo (Xabier Deive). Mother and son will try to live the freedom that has been denied to them for so many years while they are persecuted by

The series depicts poverty and chaos ahead of the 1812 revolution

gangs of bandits and gunmen of the Governor. Lagartijo, Aceituno (Isak Ferriz) and the Governor (Luis Callejo) are looking for La Llanera, but they are also looking for each other. In 19th century Spain there is no room for everyone, much less for traitors.