Mediaset España signs an agreement with Globo for the co-production of the series 'Supermax'

Directed by Argentine director Daniel Burman, it will be Globo's first fiction made entirely in Spanish, in which TV Azteca (Mexico) and Argentine Public Television also participate.

An international casting with outstanding performers; a fast-paced story that combines action, adventure, survival and mystery in the setting of a reality show that takes place in an abandoned maximum security prison; a television product to reach the Spanish-speaking market in Spain and Latin America: these are the main credentials of Supermax, the first television series filmed in Spanish by the Brazilian company Globo, one of the largest audiovisual groups on the American continent with which Mediaset Spain has signed an international co-production agreement that will bring this original fiction bet to Cuatro viewers.

Supermax It also has the participation of other large television operators in the Latin American market, such as TV Azteca (Mexico) and the collaboration of the Argentine network TVP, which makes it the first major international co-production in Spanish in which Mediaset España participates.

Raphael Corrêa Netto, executive director of Globo's International Business area, has referred to the dimension of the project in the following terms: "We have two strategic objectives with this project. The first is the perspective of reaching more than 500 million Spanish-speaking people, with a product originally created for this audience. The second is to expand our relationship with important players in this market, such as the partners Azteca, Mediaset España and TVP, in addition to the creative exchange between the various talents involved in the "We are going to continue working so that 'Supermax' is also broadcast in other countries," the executive revealed.

Manuel Villanueva, General Director of Content at Mediaset España, has indicated that "through this agreement we will have the opportunity to take a step forward in our presence in the Latin American market with the help of one of the largest television operators in this territory, such as Globo. 'Supermax' meets conditions that make it a very attractive series, both for the originality of its approach and its narrative development and for the level of interpretation and the quality of its production, and it seems to us an ideal project to become our first major international co-production shot in Spanish.”

The series, an international adaptation of the Brazilian fiction of the same title, has recently begun recording in one of the largest film and television studios on the entire American continent, the Globo Studios in Rio de Janeiro - more than 1.6 million square meters of sets and gigantic sets - and includes exterior sequences in such spectacular locations as the Amazon jungle or the desert salt flats of Jujuy in Argentina.

Daniel Burman

The cast of the series brings together an outstanding group of performers from various backgrounds united by the common denominator of the success achieved in their different countries of origin. Santiago Segura, Cecilia Roth, Rubén Cortada, Antonio Birabent, Alexa Moyano, Laura Novoa, Guillermo Pfening, Juan Pablo Geretto, Nicolas Goldschmidt, César Troncoso, Alejandro Camacho, Laura Neiva and Felipe Hintze are some of the names in the cast.

The creative direction of Supermax It is run by Oficina Burman, by Argentine director Daniel Burman. Director of The broken hug (Grand Jury Prize and Silver Bear at the Berlinale in 2004) and producer of titles such as Motorcycle Diaries o Truman, Burman's filmography includes feature films such as The empty nest, All the stewardesses go to heaven or his latest movie, The king of Eleven.

“Recording at Globo Studios, bringing together all these artists from different parts of the world, is being an enriching experience,” says Burman. “I am very happy with the way the work is developing and with the possibility of being part of this project that will undoubtedly captivate people around the world.”

An old criminal prison becomes the set of the most extreme reality show on television
A large television network proposes the most difficult yet for its next season: an escape and survival game inside a former maximum security federal prison, commonly known as Supermax, abandoned years ago after a bloody mutiny and isolated in the middle of a desert.

The network will recruit as participants a varied group of seemingly harmless people, but who hide dangerous secrets that will turn their televised confinement into an extreme experience. The tension of the reality show will exceed all limits when, a few hours after the broadcast starts, an incident leaves the contestants and the presenter isolated in a hostile environment and without contact with the outside world. It will be then when the real competition to survive begins and where each player shows the true motivation why they accepted the challenge of Supermax, a place that hides a secret that is worth living for... or killing.