I have never watched the popular Netflix series Narcos, but Amazon Prime Video just announced a show that I will be much more likely to check out in a timely manner – Narcos vs. Zombies.
This Mexican television production will be reaching more than 200 countries thanks to the Amazon streaming service. The show will be available to watch sometime in 2020.
Produced by Dynamo and Red Creek Productions, the show was created and written by Nicolas Entel and Miguel Tejada-Flores. Rigoberto Castañeda directed, with Entel serving as showrunner. Fátima Molina, Horacio García Rojas, Nery Arredondo, Adria Morales, and RAMBO: LAST BLOOD's Sergio Peris-Mencheta star.
Narcos vs. Zombies is said to blend sci-fi, horror, and action over the course of its eight episodes. The story begins when
legendary narco kingpin Alonso Marroquín (Peris-Mencheta) escapes from a high-security Mexican prison with his son Lucas (Arredondo) and finds refuge hiding at Paradiso, a remote drug rehab facility located on the U.S. side of the border. Meanwhile, test subjects from a failed U.S. military experiment — intended to transform wounded soldiers into killing machines — are left for dead near the border, only to revive as deadly mutant zombies. A Mexican SWAT team pursuing the Marroquíns is infected by the zombie horde, becoming a zombie army in its own right. Alerted to the threat, the U.S. Army embarks on a mission to annihilate them.
Javier Szerman, head of Mexico originals for Amazon Prime Video, had this to say:
We are always looking to bring new kinds of premium content to our Prime members, therefore we are very excited about this new and innovative series that will surely be loved by fans of a variety of genres. The story of ‘Narcos vs Zombies’ is something that hasn’t been done at this scale in Latin America."
Entel, who is also a founding partner of Red Creek, added that,
The series is a lot of fun, action-packed and features amazing VFX, but it will also likely ruffle some feathers as it deals with several important — and controversial — current affairs."
Dynamo CEO Andrés Calderón says,
The level of complexity in the production of this series added with the blending of genres will bring audiences a story which they have never before seen."
Entel's previous work primarily consists of documentaries. Co-creator Miguel Tejada-Flores's credits include crafting the story for REVENGE OF THE NERDS, co-writing 1988's FRIGHT NIGHT PART 2, working with Brian Yuzna on BEYOND RE-ANIMATOR, co-writing FRANKENSTEIN'S ARMY, and scripting the Philip K. Dick adaptations SCREAMERS and SCREAMERS: THE HUNTING.