Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo prepare the series 'La Mesías' for Movistar Plus+

Movistar Plus+, in collaboration with Take Content, will produce The Messiah, a thriller written, directed and produced by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo.

The series is the “most ambitious, calm and complex” project of the couple of creators after successes such as The Call, Paquita Salas o Poison.

Javier Calvo has highlighted that “two years after Poison, we want to take it a step further, composing an almost apocalyptic family drama and delving into faith, but from a darker and more painful place.”

For his part, Javier Ambrossi has pointed out that "it has been more than a year and a half of very intense work. Of documentation, of research, of writing, of delving into the topics we want to address. We have created a series with a multitude of points of view, with a mix of genres that spans from the 80s to the present. I couldn't be happier to share today with the world that this series has found its home on Movistar Plus+."

To Sunday Corral, director de ficción en Movistar Plus+, “son unos creadores excepcionales, con una mirada única, cercana y universal. Ellos han apostado por nosotros. Son autenticidad, originalidad, ambición, riesgo, cercanía. Movistar Plus+ es una plataforma española que apuesta por el mejor talento creativo español. Ahora tenemos la suerte de poder trabajar con Javier Calvo y Javier Ambrossi, quienes nos ayudarán sin duda a contar esas historias locales con vocación de ser universales y que trasciendan más allá de nuestras fronteras”.

The Messiah It is centered on a viral video of a Christian pop music group made up of five sisters that impacts the life of Enric, a man tormented by a childhood marked by religious fanaticism and the yoke of a mother with messianic delusions.

This family thriller that talks about overcoming trauma, faith as a tool to fill the void and art as the only way to escape terror.