Tenerife, filming destination for the international series 'The Gryphon' and 'Crossfire'

International productions The Gryphon (Amazon Prime Video) and Crossfire (BBC Studios, RTVE) are currently being filmed in Tenerife.

Both productions have the collaboration of the service company Sur Film, responsible for major international shoots in the Canary Islands as The Eternals (Marvel Studios), Wonder Woman (Warner Bros.), Foundation (Apple TV), Jason Bourne (Universal Pictures) or The One (Netflix).

The Gryphon, based on the fantasy bestseller of the same title by Wolfgang and Heike Hohlbein, is a production for Amazon Studios by the German company W&B in collaboration with DogHaus Film. The creative duo formed by Erol Yesilkaya and Sebastian Marka, known for titles such as Exit and Tatort, perform the tasks of showrunners and creators. Filming in Tenerife began in November with an estimated duration of seven weeks, and includes locations in the municipality of San Miguel de Abona, for example. The six-episode series will be available exclusively in the near 240 countries and territories where Amazon Prime Video operates.

On the other hand, the filming of Crossfire, a three-episode miniseries that BBC Studios co-produced with RTVE, kicked off in November at a luxury resort in Tenerife. Leading the international cast is British actress Keeley Hawes and Spanish actors Hugo Silva and Alba Brunet. The fiction of the British company Dancing Ledge Productions (Death in Salisbury) is produced by Alex Mercer (Doctor Who) and has distribution of Fremantle Media International and the participation of Buddy Club Productions. This survival thriller, created and written by British actress Louise Doughty, begins in a luxurious hotel on a Spanish island, where while sunbathing on the balcony of her room, Jo (Keeley Hawes) watches as a group of armed men violently burst into the pool where her husband and children are bathing. Jo will try to save them with the help of the hotel's head of security.

The filming in Tenerife of both international series is in addition to those of other European productions of important commercial pull that have recently passed through the island, such as the popular German series Balko, which returns under the title Balko Tenerife, produced by Ufa Fiction with executive production by Guido Reinhardt for RTL; and Hit Big, production by Finnish outfit Komeetta Film, which has relied on the services of Orange Valley Canary Islands.

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