In the presentation of Spanish Prime Video content for the next two years only it was missing that they received us with ‘My music is your voice’ in the background: We all knew what their big bombing was going to be because, as they themselves have admitted, it was “the best kept news… until they picked it up for us.” That does not mean that for two hours they have shown what is to come with a few projects -some still in pre-production- that will give us a lot to talk about. We are going to see the most interesting ones, which their own authors have told us, among others (such as ‘Los Farad’ or ‘A hipster in empty Spain’). And yes, also ‘Operation Triumph’. And no, they have not told us who will present.
Red Queen
Ok, we already knew that ‘Red Queen’ existed, but We have finally been able to see a behind-the-scenes trailer that has been able to calm our spirits thanks to a beastly production. Before we have had a presentation in which the word “responsibility” has been repeated (hammered, I would say) and where it has been stressed that it is a series that never ceases to amaze, whether or not you have read the book. They are still in post production so You can imagine the release date: “Coming soon”. This is going to be the tonic: except for ‘Takeshi’s castle’, which will be released on July 10, the rest does not seem to be going to see it soon.
ballads
We did not know that this series existed and we have left the presentation wanting to devour it. the trailer, a mixture between terror, surrealism and thriller, it is spectacular. Perhaps not so much technically as creatively: it is always appreciated when a product is out of the ordinary, after all. The series promises to be a puzzle in which they will go back and forth in time trying to solve enigmas and mysteries and raising new ones, challenging the viewer. In addition, the authors have drawn on references from comics, manga, gothic literature, and ghost stories, and throughout the presentation they have emphasized that it is something different and genuine. Spanish horror in episodic format? Please and thank you.
Anyway
Could this be the best series idea I’ve heard in a long time? From the hand of David Saínz (‘Malviviendo’) and Enrique Lojo, his argument is wonderful: Imagine that tomorrow the apocalypse is announced. In thirty days, we’ll all be dead. What would you do if you know that your actions are not going to have consequences? It doesn’t matter: now imagine that after the gap the end of the world does not come and you have to face your mistakes. A hilarious comedy of very sorry people, emotional post-apocalypse and with the reference of the Cornetto Trilogy. They have not yet started filming, but they have revealed that they came up with a hangover before the pandemic. Bohemians of the 21st century.
Hildegart
The new film by Paula Ortiz tells an incredible story that, sadly, is not well known in Spain (despite the fabulous film by Fernando Fernán-Gómez ‘My daughter Hildegart’). A 1930s feminist woman tries to raise her daughter as the perfect woman, but when she leaves his iron fist and begins to fall in love, decides to shoot him three times in the head. The director of ‘The Bride’ has been obsessed with the case since college, and when she got the chance to do it, she took it very personally. We will have to see if the avant-garde aesthetic that they want to give to the film It sticks with the gruesome true story. Little else is known: well, yes, that it will not go through theaters, like any of his one hundred percent original films, repeating the strategy of ‘Tomorrow is today’. Mistake? Success? We will have to see it.
Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End
Manel Louleiro was a lawyer who, tired of writing lawsuits, opened a blog narrating a zombie apocalypse (well, infected) in Galicia. It was one of the first virals in Spain and, between 2010 and 2011, three volumes of ‘Apocalypse Z’ were released. Since then, he has not stopped writing. A complex character, Galicia, a rewriting in the code of Covid and, as his developer, Adriana Izquierdo, has added, “most important: there is a cat”. The film has not started shooting, but there is desire.
The boys’ circus
Prime Video was not going to be left out the Hispanic true crime bubble that has been giving us so much joy lately, in this case telling the story of an independent country created in Galicia during the Franco regime by Father Silva and made up only of teenagers who dictated their own rules. In fact, they set up a circus that toured the world and even sold out Madison Square Garden… before trouble started. According to what its director, the “Goyarizado” Elías León Siminiani, has told us, there are over a thousand hours of footage. Good luck doing the summary.
Takeshi’s castle
You know, humour. Humor of that, of which it does not have a particular color. That humor. Zamburguesas, blows and funny dubbing from the hands of the two classics (Fernando Costilla and Paco Bravo) and three other celebrities: we already knew Jorge Ponce (he is also an executive producer), but Eva Soriano and Dani Rovira joined. The result, from what we have been able to see in a clip, is… chaotic. And believe me, I want ‘Takeshi’s castle’ to succeed and laugh out loud, but the five voices sound a bit rushed. We know, of course, that the version that we will have here will be exclusive to the Spanish market, with Spanish graphics and editing, so it depends on your trust in the co-director of ‘La resistencia’ who has been in charge of adapting it. To the nougat!
Operation triumph 2023
And we come to what you were waiting for: an ‘OT’ that will start at the end of the year, which will have a 24-hour channel on YouTube, live galas on Prime… And about which we still don’t know anything else. From the streaming they have asked us to let them work and they have added that there will be news, but none very dramatic: everything that is done will be listening to the fan on social networks. Will there be more reality shows later? Well hey, who knows. The doors are open. Or so they say.
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