It has been announced that the only wild west theme park on the island will be closed for the rest of this year. The filming of a new Amazon Prime “Mega-Production”, which looks set to renew and rejuvenate the famous 1920s franchise of Zorro, has begun pre-production and will shoot an exclusive ten-part series around the famous rapier wielding defender of El Pueblo de Los Angeles. There is much history behind this latest location for incoming Hollywood productions, and its great to see the ghost town’s waning fortunes possibly reinvigorated, with the prospects of reaching streaming audiences worldwide. There is much to celebrate!
Zorro Reboot
The reboot series of “Zorro”, from Los Angeles-based Secuoya Studios and John Gertz, will stream exclusively on Amazon’s Prime Video in the
U.S., Latin America and in Spain. It will star Miguel Bernardeau (Guzmán
in Netflix smash hit “Elite”) and Mexico’s Renata Notni, as Secuoya Studios
flagship series offering a modern take on the hero, directed by Javier Quintas,
whose credits include episodes of “Money Heist” and “Sky Rojo,” alongside
Miguel Angel Vivas, who worked on “Locked Up” and “Unauthorized Living.”
The 10 episode series is written by
Carlos Portela (“Hierro,” “Velvet Collection”), and executive produced
for Secuoya Studios by David Martínez, David Cotarelo and Angela Agudo, joined
by John Gertz, founder of Zorro Productions and a producer on “The Mask of Zorro” and “The Legend
of Zorro” movies, working alongside former Sony exec Andy Kaplan at KC Global
Media, Sergio Pizzolante for C&T Mobs, and Jesús Torres and Glenda Pacanins
at NoStatusQuo Studios.
The series, according to Variety, is set to shoot, what Martínez, Secuoya Studios head of
fiction called “the most important Hispano American hero of all times and
adapting him for a new generation,” using various locations across The Canary
Islands. He added: “To do this, we’ve been lucky to count on Prime Video,
the best partners possible for this journey, to form both a cast which is a
luxury as well as the best creative and production team in the industry.”
Aiming to create an “up-to-date” vision of this legendary character who since the
earliest times of film making in the 20th century has long been “a symbol of
justice and defender of the oppressed.” The production “perfectly takes in the
diversity of an emerging world in which different races try to live together,”
Secuoya Studios said at their unveiling on Friday.
It looks like, half a century after
its creation, and just over one hundred years since Johnston McCulley’s dashing
vigilante Zorro was first imagined and brought to life on the silver
screen starring the legendary Douglas Fairbanks, Sioux City will now become the
original Pueblo de Los Angeles, endowed with a new, and much deserved,
coating of star dust to carry on shining as a beacon to the world from this
small sub-tropical island off the coast of Africa. A fantastic newly
rising star for Gran Canaria’s film production and tourism industries alike.
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