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Location shoots, a Movistar Plus hallmark, gives вЂњLa FortunaвЂќ вЂњa unique personality and an essential sense of realism,вЂќ says Domingo Corral, head of original programming at Movistar Plus. Tanks and three Hercules transport planes appear in later scenes. As the Ministry of Culture sets out to prove that FrankвЂ™s treasure comes from La Fortuna, production brought in the Spanish navy, army, civil guard and oceanography institute to access launches, helicopters and a deep sea submersible. The segments depicting when the retrieval of the treasure becomes a matter of state lensed in SpainвЂ™s equivalent of the White House, MadridвЂ™s Palacio de Moncloa. ThatвЂ™s a huge number, and ranges across the country from Madrid, Cadiz and Zaragoza to San Sebastian, A CoruГ±a and El Ferrol.

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When Frank ships the booty to his home base in Atlanta, Alex Ventura (Alvaro Mel), a rookie civil servant, is dispatched by SpainвЂ™s ministry of culture to retrieve it, enrolling a fiery bureaucrat (Ana Polvorosa) and Jonas to argue SpainвЂ™s case for sovereign state ownership through a tense battle, which expands from Atlanta to Washington.ДЄpart from courtroom scenes, вЂњLa FortunaвЂќ was shot at about 50 different locations in Spain, says Fernando Bovaira, head of Mod Producciones. It contains, as he knows, the biggest sunken treasure trove in history off the Spanish coast. It begins with Frank locating the wreck of La Fortuna, a ship sunk by the Royal Navy in 1804 off the Atlantic coast of Spain.

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and Spain and past and present, вЂњLa FortunaвЂќ is not only the biggest but also most complex series that Movistar Plus has ever made. That set-up allows Movistar Plus to grasp the holy grail of current high-end drama series production: IP ownership and overseas distribution reach. and Canada this winter and Latin America and the Caribbean in 2022. The AMC pact also delivers the most far-reaching distribution deal for any Movistar series to date with AMC Plus releasing the series in the U.S. It has the Spanish media companyвЂ™s biggest stars to date: Stanley Tucci, who plays Frank Wild, owner of Atlantis Underwater Searching, the worldвЂ™s biggest American deep-sea discovery company, and Clarke Peters, immortalized in David SimonвЂ™s вЂњThe Wire,вЂќ who takes on the role of Jonas Pierce, the worldвЂ™s best maritime rights lawyer. вЂњLa FortunaвЂќ weighs in as the single biggest single U.S.-Spain co-production in history, teaming AMC Studios, Movistar Plus and SpainвЂ™s Mod Producciones. The six-part series also says much about how Movistar Plus, the pay TV-SVOD unit of giant European telecom Telefonica, is setting out to consolidate audiences in Spain and secure even more of a global viewership. Yet, even by such measures, Alejandro AmenГЎbarвЂ™s вЂњLa Fortuna,вЂќ which world-premieres at SeptemberвЂ™s San Sebastian Film Festival, sets a new bar for Movistar PlusвЂ™ ambitions. When it world-premiered at the San Sebastian festival in 2017, вЂњThe Plague,вЂќ a re-creation of 1580 Seville in its dazzling glory and poverty, was most probably the biggest-budget Spanish series ever made. Few big European telecoms have driven into original high-end drama series production at the scale of Movistar Plus.