Amazon Prime Video today has knocked on the table announcing what they will be the six Spanish series and films, which will also be the first to be produced, which will premiere in 2022. Among all of them stands out the series of ‘Red Queen’, the best-selling book of Juan Gómez-Jurado, who a while ago signed exclusively for this streaming platform.
The new Spanish series from Amazon
‘Red Queen’
FINALLY I can tell you: the RED QUEEN series is a reality in @PrimeVideoEs. We have been working on development for almost three years now (and keeping the secret) 🥰 pic.twitter.com/KqDlqko7v6
– Juan Gómez-Jurado (@JuanGomezJurado) January 12, 2022
Gómez-Jurado himself collaborates with the screenwriter Amaya muruzabal (‘Hernán’) in the adaptation of a literary franchise that started in 2018 with ‘Red Queen’, a book that follows the story of Antonia Scott, a woman endowed with incredible intelligence who works as a criminal analyst for a somewhat mysterious organization. An inspector requires your help to solve a case, but convincing her will not be an easy task.
‘No footprints’
Carlos de Pando and Sara Antuña, a duo that has already collaborated on ‘The Neighbor’, are behind two cleaners who receive a tempting job offer to clean a house, but once there they find a corpse. Carolina Yuste and Camila Sodi star in what has been defined as a “western paella” that mixes thriller, comedy and western. Koldo Serra, Paco Caballero, Gema Ferraté and Samantha López Speranza they will be its directors.
‘The Farad’
Mariano Barroso and Alejandro Hernández They previously collaborated on ‘El día de Mañana’, ‘La línea invisible’ or ‘Criminal’ and here they will explore the world of arms trafficking on the Costa del Sol during the 80s. The title of the series is provisional and will consist of eight episodes.
‘A private matter’
Jean Reno, Aura Garrido, Álex García, Ángela Molina, Gorka Otxoa, Tito Valverde, Pablo Molinero and Andrés Velencoso lead the cast of this series created by Teresa Fernández-Valdés, Ramón Campos and Gema R. Neira. In it, we will travel to the 1940s in Galicia to follow the story of Marina Quiroga, a young upper-class woman with a police spirit who sets out to hunt down a serial killer who has been wreaking havoc for a long time. David Pinillos and Maria Ripoll They will take care of the staging.
Amazon’s first Spanish movies
‘Tomorrow is today’
New comedy with touches of fantasy from Nacho G. Velilla (‘Let the ugly die’) which will star Carmen Machi, Javier Gutiérrez, Sílvia Abril, Pepón Nieto, Mina El Hammani and Natalia Agüero Avecilla. In it we will follow a family that goes to the beach in the summer of 1991, but everything gets complicated with the escape of their teenage daughter and a trip back in time that sends them to 2022 …
‘Awareness’
The goal of this new film by Daniel Benmayor (‘Xtremo’) is to create a universe to continue exploring in the future. It sounds like a movie close to the superhero cinema and revolves around a young man who has the ability to project images into the minds of other people, a power that others will want to take advantage of as soon as they discover his existence …