This is a sequel because it is based on the second of the movie. Ildefonso Falcones1 book There may be a second season about Barcelona of the fourteenth century, but continuing the legend that began. ‘Cathedral of the Sea’. Why ‘Heirs of the Earth’ preserves the spirit of the first, be faithful to the novel and with that gorgeous in images typical for a big blockbuster. lead role Yon Gonzalez, Elena Rivera and Rodolfo SanchoThe actors who gave life to another generation will see the light in fiction. Netflix this friday, 15. It will be broadcast by Antena 3 and then by TV3 in a year.
And Arnau Estanyol (Aitor Luna) he was the ‘hero’ of the first episode, this time Hugo Llor (Yon Gonzalez)His protégé, who will try to survive the harsh conditions and dark characters he will face in medieval Barcelona: “He knows how to put hate and anger in a good place and give it a good look, which is not easy. She is beautiful and says a lot about her”, González told El Periódico de Catalunya, a newspaper of the same group called Prensa Ibérica, of this newspaper, .
The actor’s name had already been raised to attend the ‘Cathedral of the Sea’: “I’ve wanted to work with Yon for a long time,” admits Jordi Frades, the director of both productions. In the end, he was his brother in real life, Aitor Luna (‘Los Hombres de Paco’, ‘Gran Reserva)’ The one who will give life to Estanyol. And although the character appears in the first episode of ‘Heirs of the World’, González and Luna will not overlap in plots. “There are those who think Yon is playing Aitor’s son, and no,” his production company Diagonal (Banjay Iberia) told this newspaper. Michell Jenner, Natalia Sánchez, Pere Arquillué and Bruna Cusi, among others.
Llor’s women
Love will be one of the engines of Hugo Llor’s life and for him A few women will pass. Someone will be a big support for him. about Caterina as Elena Rivera, the actress we currently see in the role of a young rape victim in the Antena 3 drama ‘Alba’. Both characters, though far apart at the time, have some similarities due to the dramatic events they went through: “I’m moving from drama to drama” acknowledges the actress, who describes her character as “a woman who has been mistreated by life.” From the tyranny of time, saved by the guardian angel who passed him through a terrible world.”
This quality of images and careful recreation of time The sets and costumes for this production are reminiscent of those in ‘La Catedral del Mar’. And the creative team is almost the same. “We changed the aesthetic a little bit because it’s a more contemporary era, but we tried that the person who liked the first one wouldn’t find something completely different,” says Frades. If something is working, why change it? “We hope fans of ‘The Cathedral of the Sea’ will enjoy it too, because many links and compliments to the first‘ he points out.
Filmed in Catalonia
Distinguish this installment from the previous one, on this occasion more outdoors and less set scenes. “Because we shot entirely in Catalonia and we had lots of Romanesque, vineyards … we were able to capture more natural locations, as history demanded,” Frades warns. “It looks like Santes Creus, Barcelona, Girona. … we toured Catalonia. And this amount of exteriors shows it,” he boasts.
shadow Ildefonso Falcones flew lightly production. “The author left it in our hands. He just read the scripts and told us a little something. We did a screening of the first two episodes so he could see the spirit was the same as the first and he liked them,” says the director. And they hope the same will happen to the audience reading the movie. novel. “We want to get to know him. Because stories with a very strong cinematographic component”. However, they focused less on the historical part to give more importance to the characters.
Something has really changed about the ‘Cathedral of the Sea’: the premiere was then Antena 3 and then it went to Netflix. This time the platform is privileged because that’s what asked them to make the series after working in Latin America. And at this point Frades perhaps after his successes at Atresmedia It wouldn’t be that successful on TV3. “It seems like things are running in three places. One example is ‘La cocinera de Castamar’: on Atresplayer, on Antena 3, and on Netflix. There are so many different audiences that people watch wherever they want.” Say ‘we’ll stay connected’.