Netflix is continuing its aggressive expansion into international originals with its first Mandarin-language series and significant moves in Spain.
The Svod service has set Nowhere Man as its first Mandarin-language original. The show, which will start shooting in Taiwan later this week, is written and directed by DJ Chen. It tells the story of brotherhood, Taiwanese gangsters and jailbreak. It marks the first collaboration between Joseph Chang and Alyssa Chia as well as cast including Mavis Fan, Bo-Chieh Wang, Jeremy Liu, Zhou Ming-Fu and Greg Hsu.
In Spain, the digital platform has ordered High Seas, an eight-episode mystery-drama series set in the 1940s. The series, which will launch in 2019, follows a transatlantic ship full of passengers, traveling from Europe to South America in search of a better future. It features two sisters, Carolina (Alejandra Onieva) and Eva (Ivana Baquero), as different as they are inseparable, a handsome officer, Nicolás Sala...
The Svod service has set Nowhere Man as its first Mandarin-language original. The show, which will start shooting in Taiwan later this week, is written and directed by DJ Chen. It tells the story of brotherhood, Taiwanese gangsters and jailbreak. It marks the first collaboration between Joseph Chang and Alyssa Chia as well as cast including Mavis Fan, Bo-Chieh Wang, Jeremy Liu, Zhou Ming-Fu and Greg Hsu.
In Spain, the digital platform has ordered High Seas, an eight-episode mystery-drama series set in the 1940s. The series, which will launch in 2019, follows a transatlantic ship full of passengers, traveling from Europe to South America in search of a better future. It features two sisters, Carolina (Alejandra Onieva) and Eva (Ivana Baquero), as different as they are inseparable, a handsome officer, Nicolás Sala...
- 10/1/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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