DISNEY'S STAR PLUS STREAMER FOR LATIN AMERICA PREPARING PANCHO VILLA AND THE CRY OF THE BUTTERFLIES PERIOD SET SERIES! SEE FIRST PHOTOS!

 NEW STAR PLUS EPIC SHOWS 

PANCHO VILLA

Beside Santa Evita which I already wrote about, there are two other period set shows that Disney's Star Plus South American streamer has presented at Conecta Fiction and Entertainment festival in Toledo this week. While Santa Evita will bow on Star Plus in South America, Hulu in United States and Disney's Star around the the world from July 26th, another historical series that has already been shot for Star Plus is PANCHO VILLA: THE CENTAUR OF THE NORTH (Pancho Villa. El Centauro del Norte)! As Variety reports, the series about legendary Mexican revolutionary leader Doroteo Arango, aka Pancho Villa, was filmed on location in the state of Jalisco, Mexico. The story of the new series traces his evolution, from his time as a bandit to his transformation into the leader of the Mexican Revolution. The cast is led by Jorge A. Jiménez (Pancho Villa), Juan Luis Medina (Carlos Jáuregui) and Armando Hernández (Tomás Urbina).

  THE CRY OF THE BUTTERFLIES

Another of the upcoming period set series produced for Star Plus is THE CRY OF THE BUTTERFLIES (El Grito de las Mariposas)! As the official synopsis says, it will be a period drama based on the true story of theDominican Republic’s Mirabal sisters and one of the most shocking cases of gender violence in Latin American history. As Variety states, you can expect a plush period drama, laced by current gender sensibilities.

SEE NATALIA OREIRO AS EVA PERON IN SANTA EVITA MINI TV SERIES TRAILER AND POSTER

    SANTA EVITA   

NEW TV SERIES FROM MEXICO

The series will air on Star+ muy pronto

Continuing our travel around the world, today we are in South America with seven episode mini series SANTA EVITA from Star+ canal produced by Salma Hayek. This is the postmortem story of Eva Perón (Natalia Oreiro) whose embalmed corpse endured a bumpy journey that lasted 22 years, as bumpy as her life had been. Evita died in 1952, but her body remain not buried for three years, waiting for the construction of a monumental burial site that was never built. In 1955, the military overthrew Perón and hid Evita's remains for 19 years to prevent it from becoming a weapon against the regime. A political figure for six years and the wife of General Perón, Evita's deceased body influenced Argentinian politics for more than two decades and became the center of a peculiar story and part of Argentinian folklore. For the military regime, dead Evita was even more dangerous than her being alive as she was beloved by the poor people and workers. They all feared her not buried corpse blindly wandering without a final resting place. This is the legend of the body that was never buried. The series will take part in Conecta Fiction and Entertainment festival in Spain this June and will cross over to California July 26th.