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AMC Offers First Look at Alejandro Amenábar’s First Television Series “La Fortuna”

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Alejandro Amenábar’s fortune is being finalized…

AMC has released the first stills from the 48-year-old Spanish-Chilean Oscar-winning film director, screenwriter and composer’s first television series La Fortuna, which is in the final stages of production in Spain and the U.S.

Alejandro Amenábar

Based on Paco Roca and Guillermo Corral’s graphic novel El Tesoro del Cisne Negro, the story centers on young diplomat Alex Ventura who teams with a combative public official and a brilliant American lawyer to recover treasure stolen by Frank Wild, who travels the world plundering historic items from the ocean.

Stanley Tucci plays Wild, while Spanish actor Álvaro Mel features as Ventura. Spain’s Ana Polvorosa stars as Ventura’s colleague in work and adventure, Lucia. Rounding out the cast are Clarke Peters as attorney Jonas Pierce, and British actress T’Nia Miller, who plays attorney Susan McLean. Karra Elejalde, Manolo Solo, Blanca Portillo and Pedro Casablanc also appear.

Alejandro Amenábar’s La Fortuna

The six-part MOD Pictures-produced series will premiere in 2021 on AMC in the United States, Canada, UK, Latin America, and the Caribbean, as well as Movistar+ in Spain.

Alejandro Amenábar’s La Fortuna

Amenábar, who directs, won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2005 for The Sea Inside, while he directed Nicole Kidman in 2001’s The Others.

Alejandro Amenábar Partners with AMC & Movistar+ to Develop His First-Ever TV Drama

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Alejandro Amenábar is ready to work in television…

The 48-year-oldSpanish-Chilean film director, screenwriter and composer will make his first-ever television drama for AMC and Spain’s pay-TV broadcaster Movistar+.

Alejandro Amenabar

The Oscar-winning director behind The Others and The Sea Inside will work with AMC Studios, Movistar+ and MOD Pictures to adapt Paco Roca and Guillermo Corral’s graphic novel El Tesoro del Cisne Negro.

The story centers on young diplomat Alex Ventura who teams with a combative public official and a brilliant American lawyer to recover treasure stolen by Frank Wild, who travels the world plundering historic items from the ocean.

El Tesoro del Cisne Negro

The yet-to-be-titled six-part series goes into production this summer and will premiere in 2021 on AMC in the United States, Canada, UK, Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as Movistar+ in Spain.

Ed Carroll, COO at AMC Networks, said: “This project is uniquely a Spanish/American story inspired by real life events that at times seem more unbelievable than fiction – replete with courtroom drama, international intrigue, and even the largest recovered sunken treasure in history.”

Amenábar won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2005 for The Sea Inside, and he directed Nicole Kidman in 2001’s The Others.

Ferreras Receives European Film Awards Nomination

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The first time’s the charm for Ignacio Ferreras…

Ignacio Ferreras

The Spanish director’s first full-length animated Spanish film Arrugas has received a European Film Awards nomination.

Ferreras’ 2D-animated film, based on Paco Roca‘s comic, concerns two friends in a retirement home where one tries to keep the other out of the dreaded Alzheimer’s ward.

Arrugas, nominated in the Animated Film category, will face off against Tomas Lunak’s Alois Nobel and Peter Lord’s The Pirates! In An Adventure with Scientists.

Meanwhile, Alberto Iglesias has picked up yet another nod for his work on the music for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

The 57-year-old Spanish composer, who was named composer of the year at this year’s World Soundtrack Awards, earned a nod in the composer category.

Iglesias will face off against Aufort & Gabriel Yared for A Royal Affair, François Couturier for Shun Li and the Poet
and George Fenton for The Angels’ Share.

The European Film Awards ceremony will take place December 1.

Roca to Direct “Memoirs of a Man in Pajamas”

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He may be a noted comic book creator… But Paco Roca will soon be taking his creative eye to the big screen.

The 43-year-old Spanish illustrator and cartoonist will make his feature film debut, directing the adaptation of the comic Memoirs of a Man in Pajamas.

Paco Roca
Roca, who recently won a Goya Award for his comic book adaptation of Wrinkles, will direct the 2D animation film for young audiences about a 40-something Peter Pan character who has finally achieved his childhood dream: to stay home all day in his pajamas.

Drawing inspiration from Seinfeld and a heavy dose of autobiography, the film is made up of short animated episodes preceded by short presentations by the director in the style of Hitchcock Presents – only in his pajamas.

Based on the comic book published by Astiberri, Memoirs will be produced by Manuel Cristobal of Perro Verde Films with a script written by Wrinkles‘ Angel de la Cruz.

“The project is a way to continue working with a storyteller like Paco Roca and enjoy the possibility of a feature that is also a short series for web and TV,” said Cristobal about the project. “We are looking for brands interested in doing something innovative and fun.”