Showtime Hit ‘Your Honor’ Will get Spanish Remake from Atresmedia, ‘Hierro’ Producer Portocabo (EXCLUSIVE)

Spanish media big Atresmedia is becoming a member of forces with Portocabo, the manufacturing outfit behind Movistar Plus hit collection “Hierro,” for a remake of Showtime drama “Your Honor,” starring Bryan Cranston.

The Spanish redo is at the moment on the script stage and initiating casting.

With an undisclosed variety of episodes, the venture manufacturing is scheduled to kick off this 12 months.

The TV collection launch date continues to be unknown. However it could be logical for it to launch on platform Atresplayer Premium earlier than airing on Atresmedia’s free-to-air channel Antena 3 primetime, a windowing technique normally adopted by the group with its new fiction releases since Atresplayer Premium bowed in 2019.

“Your Honor” relies on the Israeli TV drama “Kvodo,” created by Ron Ninio and Shlomo Mashiach, and aired first on Israel’s paybox Sure TV.

The U.S. model was developed by Peter Moffat for Showtime and stars “Breaking Unhealthy’s” Bryan Cranston, who additionally govt produces. “Your Honor” premiered on Showtime Dec. 6, 2020 and has been renewed for a second season.

Described as a authorized thriller that rips by way of all strata of New Orleans society, the U.S. collection toplines Cranston as a helpless father who’s a choose in New Orleans and tries with all his may to avoid wasting his teenage son, who in a hit-and-run unintentionally kills one other teenager, son of a organized crime lord.

The Spanish adaptation groups Atresmedia with Alfonso Blanco at Galicia-based Portocabo, producer of thriller “Hierro,” essentially the most watched TV collection at Spain’s main pay TV operator, Telefonica’s Movistar Plus.

Even with the large arrival in Spain of worldwide OTT operators, Atresmedia stays a driving pressure within the Spanish TV manufacturing sector, typically financing, co-producing and selling new voices with bold authentic fiction initiatives reminiscent of Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, whose bioseries “Veneno” was launched by HBO Max within the U.S. and Latin America, after debuting in Spain by way of Atresplayer Premium.

For its half, “Your Honor” continues Atresmedia’s guess on re-versioning current standout worldwide scripted collection, a technique that kicked-off with “Alba,” a redo of feminine empowerment skein “Fatmagul,” a contemporary Turkish basic.

Atresmedia additionally lately launched in its free-to-air window Antena 3 primetime  “Mentiras,” toplining Javier Rey (“Fariña”), a Spanish remake of 2017 British TV thriller “Liar,” co-produced by ITV and SundanceTV.

Following within the wake of “Alba,” Atresmedia teamed final 12 months with Buendía Estudios to provide Adriana Ugarte-starrer “Heridas,” a remake of profitable Turkish TV present “Anne,” in flip an adaptation of Japanese collection “Mom.”