Beta Film Picks Up New Movistar Series ‘El Inmortal,’ ‘Rapa’

Germany’s Beta Movie has picked up worldwide distribution rights to 2 anticipated Movistar Plus originals, Canneseries-bound “El Inmortal – Gangs of Madrid” and Galician crime drama “Rapa.”

Sneak peeked at Collection Mania, “Rapa” screens on the Malaga Pageant on March 22.

The acquisitions type a part of an ongoing multi-year distribution-production alliance unveiled in 2019, giving Beta unique worldwide distribution rights to about six Movistar Plus sequence a yr.

A Movistar Plus co-production with Telemundo Streaming Studios in collaboration with Banijay’s DLO Producciones, “El Inmortal” impressed by true occasions, marks a deep dive right into a determine and gang which reshaped Madrid’s Nineties felony underworld.

There, José Antonio, performed by Álex Garcia (“Riot Police,” “If I Have been Wealthy”), rises up the ranks to drug lord, by means of a mix of burning ambition, innocence, and cruel elimination of rivals. However what he cherishes most may trigger his downfall, the synopsis runs.

Created by DLO head José Manuel Lorenzo, eight-episode sequence see its world premiere in most important competitors throughout this yr’s version of Canneseries, which runs April 1-6.

“Rapa” is produced by Movistar in collaboration with Portocabo, the outfit led by enterprising producer Alfonso Blanco, whose thriller sequence “Hierro” was probably the most profitable Movistar Plus TV fiction final yr.

The six-seg drama is about in probably the most north-western nook of Galicia, the place Amparo Seoane, mayor of a small city for the final 30 years and strongest lady of the area, is murdered.

Within the sequence, “Hierro” and “Riot Police” actress Mónica López performs Maite, a sergeant within the Civil Guard who investigates the crime, which is able to turn out to be an obsession for her and for Tomás (“Speak to Her,” “Sentimental” and “Venga Juan” star Javier Cámara), the one witness to the homicide.

Kicking in with Digicam trapsing over mist-veiled grass headlands plunging to the ocean, as in “Hierro,” the sequence appears to be like set too make telling use of panorama as metaphor, whereas portraying a group the place everyone appears viscerally pissed off and needs to be anyone or one thing else. It’s no coincidence that Tomás, a college instructor, begins the sequence instructing “Madame Bovary.”

Created by “Hierro’s” Pepe Coira and Fran Araújo, “Rapa” will rejoice its world premiere on March 22 as a part of the Pantalla TV part of the twenty fifth Pageant de Malaga.

“We at Beta are thrilled with the number of sequence entrusted to us as soon as once more by our companions from Movistar Plus,” mentioned Peter Lohner, Beta’s VP acquisition hispanic and worldwide.

Each sequence can be highlighted at Beta’s conventional Brunch going down at this spring’s MipTV on April 5.

The six-hour dramedy “Supernormal” and process power thriller “La Unidad” are each set for brand new seasons on Movistar Plus, with the latter premiering on March 18. New seasons on each “La Unidad” – produced by Movistar in collaboration with Buendía Estudios – and “Supernormal” -in collaboration with Secuoya – are additionally a part of Beta Movie’s MipTV line-up.