30 Coins and Beartown are two exciting new dramas heading to HBO in 2021.
30 Coins is an eight-episode drama series produced by HBO Europe in Spain, which recently premiered at the 77th Venice International Film Festival. The story introduces viewers to a world where nothing is as it seems, and nobody can be trusted.
Father Vergara (Eduard Fernández) is an exorcist, boxer and an ex-convict who is exiled by the church to be the priest of a remote town in Spain. He wants to forget and be forgotten, but his enemies will soon find him anyway.
Strange things begin to happen, and an unlikely task force of Mayor Paco (Miguel Ángel Silvestre) and the local vet Elena (Megan Montaner), seek the truth. The more they try to uncover the truth, the more reality is distorted by a cursed coin that is at the heart of a global conspiracy.
30 Coins is directed by acclaimed horror master Álex de la Iglesia (The Day of the Beast, The Last Circus), and co-written by Álex de la Iglesia and Jorge Guerricaechevarría. Executive Producers for HBO Europe are Steve Matthews, Miguel Salvat and Antony Root. Álex de la Iglesia and Carolina Bang are Executive Producers for Pokeepsie Films.
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Beartown is a five-episode drama series from Sweden based on the best-seling novel of the same name. The story explores the hopes that bring a small community together, the secrets that tear it apart, the courage it takes for an individual to go against the group and the consequences of how we raise our children.
With a small-town Swedish junior ice-hockey team having a shot at winning the national semi-finals, all the dreams of the locals rest on the shoulders of a handful of teenage boys. This heavy burden becomes the catalyst for a violent act that will leave a young girl traumatized and a town in turmoil.
Of course, accusations are made, and like ripples on a pond, they travel through Beartown, leaving no resident unaffected. The series stars Ulf Stenberg, Aliette Opheim, Tobias Zilliacus, Miriam Ingrid and Oliver Dufaker.
