Antonio Banderas will star as Hernán Cortés in Cortés, an epic feature film directed by French filmmaker Paul Mignot from a screenplay by Nicholas Kazan.
Utopai Studios and Ex Machina Studios are bringing the film to the screen through a new production approach that combines traditional filmmaking with next-generation production technologies.
Set in 1519, Cortés begins in Cuba, where a restless soldier hungry for glory seizes command of an expedition to the Yucatán and sails without permission. After landing on the coast of what is now Mexico, he meets Marina, an enslaved Indigenous woman and gifted linguist who becomes indispensable to his advance. As Cortés turns fragile alliances, faith and fear into instruments of conquest, Marina watches him transform from a daring outlaw into a self-anointed messiah.
Utopai Studios handles sales and distribution in the U.S., Canada, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, while Ex Machina Studios will lead sales and distribution across most of Europe, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand.
Production is already underway in Paris with additional shooting scheduled in Spain.
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