On the V Centenary of the first circumnavigation of the world by Elcano and Magallanes, RTVE and Amazon Prime Video join forces to produce 'Sin Limits'

Mono Films and Kilima will be the producers of 'Sin Limits', which will have a top-level technical team, headed by British director Simon West and producer Miguel Menéndez de Zubillaga.

When the V Centenary of the expedition, RTVE y Amazon Prime Video come together to launch international co-production Unlimited, a four-episode adventure series that will bring the first circumnavigation of the world by Elcano and Magellan. The story of the exciting voyage of the five ships that, leaving from Spain, demonstrated that the Earth is spherical, had not been told in fiction until now.

The launch of this production is part of the collaboration agreement signed by RTVE and the Ministry of Defense in March 2018 on the occasion of the fifth centenary of the first circumnavigation of the world. The agreement contemplates the carrying out of different activities related to the anniversary, with special attention to the implementation of audiovisual and documentary projects about the feat.

Unlimited will put into images the exciting epic of a group of sailors heading into the unknown in a great production full of action and adventure that will consist of four 60-minute chapters filmed in Spanish.

The production of this ambitious series, which will have a cinematic treatment, It will be filmed throughout this year in large locations in the Dominican Republic, where the filming of spectacular maritime sequences will take place in the well-known Pinewood Studios, and in Spain, in Canary Islands y the Basque Country. To recreate the great journey, The Victoria and Trinidad ships will be rebuilt and the replica of the Nao Victoria will be used, the only one of the five ships of the expedition that returned to port and, therefore, the first ship to circumnavigate the world.

Mono Films y Hill Media will be the producers of this production, which will have a top-level technical team, headed by the British Simon West, long-time director of action and adventure films (Con Air, Lara Croft:Tomb Raider, The General's Daughter, The Expendables 2…) and the producer Miguel Menendez de Zubillaga (The infinite trench, Loving Pablo, The paper boy, Camaron). Patxi Amezcua He is responsible for the scripts.

An almost impossible mission

The first trip around the world was an almost impossible mission that sought to find a new route to “the spice islands” and that ended up changing the history of Humanity by demonstrating that the Earth is round.

An feat that forever changed commerce, economics, astrology and knowledge of the planet as we know it today, and which is considered one of the greatest feats in history.

A total of 239 sailors, captained by the Portuguese sailor Ferdinand Magellan, began the expedition. They left Sanlúcar de Barrameda on August 20, 1519. Only 18 starving and sick sailors returned three years later on the only ship that withstood the adventure, captained by the Spanish sailor Juan Sebastián Elcano. They had traveled 14,460 leagues, always from west to east, with which they had managed to go completely around the world and demonstrated, although it was not the initial objective of the trip, that the earth is spherical.