Netflix Orders First Spanish-Language Original

BEVERLY HILLS: Netflix is getting its first Spanish-language original series, a soccer comedy from the Mexican director Gaz Alazraki.

The 13-episode series from Alazraki Entertainment is slated for a launch in 2015. It reunites the team that made We Are the Nobles (Nosotros los Nobles), which is one of the most successful Mexican box-office hits of all time. Produced by Alazraki, Leo Zimbron and Mike Lam, the story was created by Mike Lam and will be directed by Alazraki. The cast includes Nobles star Luis Gerardo Mendez.

Shooting will take place in Mexico. The series centers on a family feud among heirs of a soccer club after the owner's death.

Alazraki commented: "We formed a very special team for We Are the Nobles, and we all knew we wanted to keep working together. When I told the team that Netflix was interested in producing the show, the excitement was contagious since there's nobody cooler and more innovative in this day and age than Netflix."

"We're thrilled to be working with the talent from We Are the Nobles, a movie that managed to capture a cultural phenomenon in a fun and engaging way, while also breaking box office records. Gaz has the disruptive vision and creative storytelling we were looking for in producing our first original series in Mexico," said Ted Sarandos, Netflix's chief content officer. "We're confident our members in a market as important to us as Mexico and Latin America will love this family comedy."