Watch ‘Money Heist’s’ Miguel Herran’s in the Teaser Trailer for ‘Prison 77,’ From Alberto Rodriguez (EXCLUSIVE)

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John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentShaping up as one of the most anticipated movies from Spain this year, “Prison 77” (“Modelo 77”) has an international teaser trailer, which Movistar Plus has shared in exclusivity with Variety.“Modelo 77” marks the third Movistar Plus original film, re-teaming Telefonica’s pay TV/SVOD service with director Alberto Rodríguez, co-writer Rafael Cobos and co-producer Atípica Films, the driving forces behind “The Plague,” Movistar Plus’ big banner 2017 series.Sold internationally by Film Factory, “Prison 77” will be released in Spanish theaters by Buena Vista International on Sept.

23, the second Friday of Spain’s San Sebastian Festival, which begs the question as to whether it will feature at the event.

In it, Manuel, a young accountant, played by Miguel Herrán (“Money Heist,” “Elite”), is sent to Barcelona’s legendary Modelo penitentiary pending trial for embezzlement in 1977.

The teaser trailer is straight to the point in several ways.Watch Miguel Herrán in “Prison 77,” but under long curly locks, don’t expect him to look like “Rio” in “Money Heist” or Christian in “Elite.” An actor as well as star, he has twinned Netflix shows with an appreciable and varied independent career, which won him a breakout actor Spanish Academy Goya for his first major role, in Daniel Guzmán’s “A Cambio de nada.” What he may well channel in “Prison 77,” which links him to “Money Heist” and “Elite,” is a certain noble innocence and large sensitivity which will position him as an audience alter ego.This is a jailbreak thriller: “I want to get out of here,” says Manuel’s cell-mate, ageing con Pino, asking fellow prisoners to stage a riot as a distraction, after the teaser trailer begins with a.