Prime Video announces new Spanish Amazon Original productions: 'Reina Roja', 'Awareness'...

Amazon redoubles its commitment to Spain by announcing new Spanish Amazon Original productions that will reach Prime Video over the next few years.

Prime Video You will soon receive the new Amazon Original movies Awareness, science fiction action film produced by Juan Solá and Mark Albelay and directed by Daniel Benmayor; y Tomorrow is today, comedy directed by Nacho G. Velilla and starring Javier Gutiérrez, Carmen Machi and Sílvia Abril. In the series section, Prime Video will exclusively offer the adaptation of the successful trilogy of Juan Gómez-Jurado, Red Queen, y The Farads (working title), created and directed by Mariano Barroso and based on real events about the story of an arms dealer in Marbella in the 80s. The event has also served to present the first advances of No Traces y A private matter, what They will debut exclusively on the service in 2022.

The press conference was attended by some of the protagonists and creatives of the projects unveiled, such as the actors and actresses Javier Gutiérrez, Carolina Yuste, Camila Sodi and Aura Garrido; the directors and screenwriters Mariano Barroso, Alejandro Hernández, Daniel Benmayor and Nacho G. Velilla; and the creators and showrunners Carlos de Pando, Sara Antuña, Juan Gómez-Jurado, Amaya Muruzabal, Juan Solá, Mark Albela and Teresa Fernández-Valdés.

Koro Castellano, director of Prime Video in Spain, considers that these new original fiction projects “are really going to make a difference,” since they are “projects that we hope will be incredibly well received by our audience.” On the other hand, María José Rodríguez, head of Spanish originals, Amazon Studios, has confirmed that the company has been working “for a long time” on these projects that they hope will “surprise and please.”

Movies: Awareness y Tomorrow is today

Awareness, movie Amazon Original, is a science fiction and action film aimed at a teenage audience. This production, by the team of Federation Spain led by Juan Solá and Mark Albela, has the following synopsis: “In Awareness The audience will meet Ian, a rebellious teenager who lives with his father on the margins of society. They survive on small scams thanks to Ian's extraordinary ability to project visual illusions into the minds of others. After losing control over his powers in public, two opposing sides begin to pursue him. In his escape, Ian will have to decide on which side he is going to fight the war in which he has been forced to participate.

On the other hand, Tomorrow is today is a science fiction comedy directed by Nacho G. Velilla (Villaviciosa de al lado), produced by Happiness, and starring the renowned performers Carmen Machi, Javier Gutiérrez along with Sílvia Abril, Asier Ricarte, Carla Díaz, Antonia San Juan, Pepon Nieto and Marta Fernández Muro. Tomorrow is today, which will premiere exclusively on Prime Video in 2022, will tell the following story: "Summer 1991. The Gaspar family begins their vacation on the beach but, after arguing with their father, Lucía, the teenage daughter, decides to run away with her boyfriend. An electrical storm catches the rest of the family on board a pedalo and when they manage to return to the coast they discover that they have traveled to 2022! A crazy future full of smartphones, selfies and trap music. Will they manage to return to the placid nineties?”

Series: red queen y The Farads

In addition to the exclusive agreement for the development of original audiovisual content in Spanish with one of the greatest exponents of the thriller genre internationally, the author Juan Gómez-Jurado, Amazon Studios has announced the series adaptation of the successful trilogy Red Red, the best-selling book in Spain for the third consecutive year. Juan Gómez-Jurado y Amaya Muruzábal, author of Reina Roja and showrunner, respectively, will be in charge of the television adaptation of the fascinating story of Antonia Scott, "a very special woman who has a gift that is at the same time a curse: extraordinary intelligence. Thanks to her she has saved dozens of lives, but she has also lost everything. Today she shelters herself against the world in her almost empty apartment in Lavapiés, from which she does not plan to leave again." Red Queen will be produced by Dopamine y Focus.

Prime Video has also announced The Farads (working title), an 8-episode Amazon Original series inspired by real events, with overtones of action and thriller that will introduce the audience to Marbella in the 80s with Oskar, a boy who dreams of setting up a gym and ends up entering the fascinating world of the Costa del Sol, with its jet set, its eccentricities and its geopolitics. Oskar achieves all this thanks to the Farads, a family that offers him a future, with the most unexpected of trades: arms trafficking. The series is created by Mariano Barroso y Alejandro Hernandez, where Barroso will be in charge of directing and Hernández will be in charge of the script. The Farads is produced by Fernando Bovaira to MOD y angel Rodríguez to Espotlight.

Imminent releases: No traces y A private matter

Carolina Yuste and Camila Sodi star Without traces, series of 8 episodes produced by Zeta Studios with Eneko Gutiérrez (The neighbor) as executive producer, Carlos de Pando (The Ministry of Time) and Sara Antuña (Victim number 8) as showrunners and as creators with Gabi Ochoa (Love is not what it was) and Hector Beltran (The End). It is paella western Filmed between Alicante and Barcelona, ​​it is directed by Paco Caballero (The neighbor), Gemma Ferraté (All the ways of God), Samantha López Speranza and Koldo Serra (The Money Heist).

The second production, A private matter, is signed by Bamboo Productions. Composed of 8 episodes, this production created by Teresa Fernández-Valdés, Ramón Campos and Gema R. Neira, and directed by David Pinillos and María Ripoll, will feature a cast headed by Jean Reno (The Professional (León), The Big Blue) Angela Molina (The Municipality), Alex García (Wartime, Riot), Gorka Otxoa (Velvet), Tito Valverde (Slaughterhouse), Pablo Molinero (The Fish), Sara Sanz (The secret of Puente Viejo), Carlos Villarino (Anti-disturbances), Toño Casais (flour), Nerea Portela (The invisible line), Adrian Ríos (Instinct) Andrés Velencoso (Velvet Collection, Edha), among others.

These productions Amazon Original will soon join the series and movies available in the catalog of Prime Video, including other Spanish Amazon Original series such as Celebrity Bake Off Spain, The heart of Sergio Ramos, The legend of Sergio Ramos y The challenge: ETA, El Cid, LOL: If you laugh you lose, G.E.O: Beyond the limit, as well as the Amazon Original series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel y Fleabag, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, Hunters, The Boys, Homecoming, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Good Omens y Carnival Row, as well as the licensed content.