Production has begun on La Cabeza de Joaquín Murrieta, a new action-packed Amazon Original series, co-created by Mauricio Leiva-Cock and episodes written by David Figueroa García, Associate Produced by Fidelio.
The series is a Western set along the Mexico-US border in 1851, “a period fueled by greed, anger, and xenophobia when an all-out war is waged,” as Amazon described in a statement to the press. The show will follow the adventures of Joaquín Murrieta, a notorious and legendary outlaw hailing from Sonora, Mexico who is often referred to as the Robin Hood of the West, and the character of Carrillo, as they unite to face a common enemy.
“For a long time we have wanted to make a Western told from our Latin American perspective, and the fact that Amazon Prime Video has bet on this series and has joined us on this adventure is a dream come true,” said Leiva-Cock in a joint statement with series co-creator Ramírez Schrempp of Dynamo. Leiva-Cock and Schrempp typify the series as “a story of Mexican identity where current issues of migration, race, and discrimination are explored, under a genre that has seldom been explored in our region.”
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