Amazon’s Boundless to Star Rodrigo Santoro & Álvaro Morte

Amazon Prime Video and RTVE have partnered for Boundless, a drama series about the first sailing trip around the world ever completed.

In Boundless, Rodrigo Santoro (Last Call) and Álvaro Morte (Money Heist) will play Magallanes and El Cano. The series will bring to life the thrilling story of a group of sailors on a voyage into the unknown across four 60-minute episodes filmed in Spain and the Dominican Republic. Boundless will launch exclusively on Prime Video in Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, Latin America, the Netherlands, the U.K., the U.S. and Andorra.

Led by the Portuguese Fernando de Magallanes, 239 sailors set sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Cádiz, Spain on August 20, 1519. Three years later, only 18 sailors returned– seriously unwell due to starvation—in the one ship that withstood the journey, which was captained by the Spanish sailor Juan Sebastián Elcano. They had traveled 14,460 leagues to complete the circumnavigation of the world, proving that the Earth is round.

In addition to Santoro and Morte, the cast for Boundless includes Sergio Peris-Mencheta (Captain Cartagena), Adrián Lastra (Captain Mendoza), Carlos Cuevas (Martino), Pepón Nieto (Father Bartolomé), Raúl Tejón (Gómez de Espinosa), Gonçalo Diniz (Duarte Barbosa), Manuel Morón (Cardenal Fonseca) and Bárbara Goenaga (Beatriz).

Boundless is produced by MONO Films and KILIMA Media and helmed by British director Simon West. Miguel Menéndez de Zubillaga is producing and the script was written by Patxi Amezcua.