Mediaset Spain will co -produce the series ‘Alatriste’ with beta film

Together with the German company Beta Film and the Spanish DLO Producciones, Mediaset Spain will take to television the character of Diego Alatriste in a 13 -chapter adventure drama.

The adventures of Diego Alastriste and Osorio, protagonist of the successful literary saga of Arturo Pérez-Reverte created in 1996, will be taken to television thanks to the agreement that the Mediaset España group and the German producer Beta Beta Film have closed. Paolo Vasile, CEO of Mediaset Spain, and Jan Mojto, general director of Beta Film, have signed the international co -production contract to carry out this ambitious television fiction that will star in Aitor Luna and that will have a total of 13 episodes.

The filming of this European blockbuster, which will produce Mediaset Spain and Beta Film with the collaboration of DLO Producciones (the producer of José Manuel Lorenzo, creator of the television adaptation of the series), and that will show the vicissitudes of Diego Alatriste, a veteran soldier of the third of Flanders who is so much as mercenary in the seventeenth century of the seventeenth century, will begin from next June.

With Alatriste, Mediaset Spain opens a new fiction production line with a clear international vocation: television productions that will reach new foreign markets, such as this series based on the famous Reverte Saga published in 36 countries around the world.

After conquering millions of readers worldwide, the Spanish gentleman created by Reverte has been taken to the cinema by Viggo Mortensen in 2006 in Alatriste, Telecinco Cinema film that a year later monopolized three Goya awards for the best costume design, the best artistic direction and the best production direction. Now, he will be the Basque Aitor Luna actor (awarded the Actors Union Award for the best secondary television actor for “Gran Reserva” in 2011) the interpreter who will embody the courageous Leon Espadachín on which the fate of an empire in the new television fiction of Mediaset Spain will hit.

More than 15 statuettes endorse the professional trajectory of Enrique Urbizu, Bilbao filmmaker who will undertake a double challenge in Alatriste: Direct the first chapter and establish the aesthetics and master lines of the series that will be present in the different deliveries of fiction. Urbizu will head a first -order production team, in which the elaboration of the scripts will be carried out by Alberto Macías (Tell me how it happened, family), Curro Royo (Tell me how it happened, familyand Carlos Molinero (The Commissioner, Quart), and will also have the collaboration of the creator of the literary saga of Alatriste, Carthaginian novelist Arturo Pérez-Reverte.

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