‘The Others’ Director Alejandro Amenábar Wraps Production on AMC, Movistar Plus Series ‘La Fortuna’

Production on AMC-Movistar Plus high-end original “La Fortuna,” starring “Supernova’s” Stanley Tucci, wrapped Tuesday in Spain, ending principal photography on one of the Spanish-speaking world’s most ambitious upcoming drama series.

Scheduled to bow this fall, “La Fortuna” also marks the first TV show from Oscar winner Amenábar, who directed “The Others” and “The Sea Inside.”

Both that ambition and authorship shone through on Monday’s last full day of shooting, which took place in Pasajes de San Pedro, a Bay of Biscay fishing village and shipyard on the northern Spanish coast, a half-hour drive from France.

Produced by Movistar Plus, AMC Studios and MOD Pictures, with AMC bowing the series in the U.S., Canada and Latin America and Beta Film selling the rest of international, the six-hour adventure thriller casts Tucci as Frank Wild, a modern-day, business-driven treasure hunter.

Wild retrieves the biggest sunken booty in history from the wreck of “La Fortuna,” a Spanish frigate sunk by four British navy warships off the coast of Portugal in 1804. When he ships the treasure to the U.S. Alex Ventura (Álvaro Mel), a rookie diplomat, is dispatched to retrieve it, launching a legal battle, fought in U.S. courts, to recover the ship’s near 500,000 silver and gold coins.

Straddling the Atlantic and the past and present, “La Fortuna” is the biggest series that Movistar Plus has ever made.

Beginning early August, and shooting in blocks, the 120-plus-day shoot has been entirely lensed during a global pandemic.