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

International productions The Gryphon (Amazon Prime Video) y Crossfire (BBC Studios, RTVE) are filming these days in Tenerife.

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

The Gryphon, based on the fantasy genre bestseller of the same title by Wolfgang and Heike Hohlbein, is a production for the German company's Amazon Studios W&B In collaboration with DogHaus movie. The creative duo of Erol Yesilkaya and Sebastian Marka, known for titles such as Exit y crime scene, 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 around 240 countries and territories where Amazon Prime Video operates.

On the other hand, the filming of Crossfire, a three-episode miniseries that BBC Studios coproduces with RTVE, started in November in a luxurious resort in Tenerife. Leading the international cast is the British actress Keeley Hawes and the 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 the British 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 in. in the pool where her husband and children bathe. Jo will try to save them with the help of the hotel's head of security.

The filming in Tenerife of both international series joins those of other European productions of important commercial importance 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 and executive produced by Guido Reinhardt for RTL; y Hit Big, production of the Finnish company Komeetta Film, which has had the services of Orange Valley Canarias.

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