El Dragón: Return of a Warrior

El Dragón: Return of a Warrior
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Created by	Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Directed by	Alvaro Curiel de Icaza Mauricio Cruz Fortunato Carlos Cock Marín Pavel Vázquez
Production company(s)	Televisa Univision W Studios Lemon Studios Netflix
Genre	Crime Drama
Broadcast Information
Country of origin	Mexico
Premiere	October 4, 2019
Seasons	1
Episode Count	38
Original Release	October 4, 2019 - Present

El Dragón: Return of a Warrior is a Mexican crime drama television series in Spanish created by Arturo Pérez-Reverte for Televisa and Univision. It stars Sebastián Rulli as the titular character.

The series also goes by the names: El Dragón: El regreso de un guerrero, or simply El Dragón, outside of Netflix.

Summary

"To replace his grandfather as head of a cartel, a Tokyo financier returns to his home country of Mexico, where he must battle two rivals for control."

—Netflix Synopsis

Cast and Characters

Main

• Sebastián Rulli as Miguel Garza
• Renata Notni as Adela Cruz
• Roberto Mateos as Epigmenio Moncada
• Irina Baeva as Jimena Ortiz
• Cassandra Sánchez Navarro as Chisca Garza
• Manuel Balbi as Héctor Bernal
• Javier Gómez as Carlos Duarte
• Alejandro Ávila
• Sofía Castro as Kenia
• Juan Pablo Gil as Jorge Garza
• Alex Durán as Ishiro Tanaka
• Mauricio Pimentel
• Edison Ruíz
• Natasha Domínguez as Claudia
• Gabriela Carrillo
• Rubén Sanz as Valentín Soria
• Cynthia Klitbo as Dora Garza
• José Elías Moreno as Lamberto Garza

Recurring

• Denia Agalianu as Karina Grishenko
• Fernando Gaviria as Sandro Ochoa
• Orlando Moguel as Detective CJ
• Alejandro Naranjo as Vladimir
• Rodrigo Massa as Piero Scarinci
• Sergio Recio Montes as Canelo
• Carmen Muga as Isabel
• Christian Uribe as Raúl
• Daniel Elbittar as Víctor
• Federico Ayos as El Flaco
• Alejandra Espinoza
• Víctor Jiménez

Guest Stars

• Marcelo Buquet
• Zuleyka Rivera as Asya
• Alejandra Robles Gil as Lucía Garza
• Gonzalo García Vivanco as Roberto Garza
• Ximena Herrera as Paula Sandoval

Spoilers/Notes

• The first season was available for streaming worldwide on Netflix on October 4, 2019.
• The first season of the series has positioned itself in the top 10 of the most watched programs on Netflix in Mexico.
• An extensive cast list was published on June 27, 2019 by the Peruvian outlet El Comercio.
• The opening theme song for the series is "Guerrero" by Ilza Ponko.
• The creation of the series began in the wake of a meeting in Madrid, Spain with Arturo Pérez-Reverte and Patricio Wills, who had previously created La Reina del Sur(Queen of the South), a series that opened the way to the "world of narconovelas".
  • The idea was to try to do something different from Teresa Mendoza.
  • At that time, both already had a perspective of Miguel Garza.
  • Wills, who was then looking to create a new and different story, told Pérez-Reverte and he said: "I suggested a story of a third generation of narcos. How the grandson of a narco would act when he was heir to an empire".
  • At that time, both said that "Miguel was going to be a man trained in Japan, an industrialist, a financier, who has more computer scientists than gunmen, more economists than gunmen or border men.
  • The series creation process, initially announced in 2016, also required several years of development and hundreds of auditions.
• The series was confirmed on May 10, 2018 during the Univision upfronts for the 2018-2019 television season.
• A year later was presented again at the upfront for the 2019-2020 television season.
• Filming of the series began on November 13, 2018 with the title El último dragón,and concluded on July 25, 2019, thus confirming a total of 82 episodes for the first season.
  • The series is created by Spanish author Arturo Pérez-Reverte, produced by Carlos Bardasano and developed by W Studios and Lemon Films for Univision, and Televisa.
  • The series was filmed for eight months in places like Tokyo,Japan, Madrid, Spain, Miami, United States and in Mexico, specifically in Mexico City; Up to three units were used simultaneously with Sony F55 cameras and Ultra Prime optics.
  • Part of the story of El Dragón takes place in Japan, one of the countries with the greatest tradition in martial arts.
  • To play Miguel Garza, Sebastián Rulli had a seven-month training at Aikido.
  • And the actors Alex Durán and Víctor Jiménez required special preparation to adapt to the Yakuza culture.
  • In addition to filming in Spain, Japan and the United States, the Mexican cities of Veracruz, Huatulco, Mazatlan and Cuernavaca served as locations for the series.
• After passing through Japan to begin filming El Dragón, Sebastián Rulli traveled to Spain to film scenes of the series with Mexican actress Cassandra Sánchez Navarro, who is his sister in the series.
  • Cassandra said "I've been filming with you for a few days, but I feel as if you are already my brother of a lifetime".
• Renata Notni began filming on Tuesday, December 4,2018 in Mexico, while Rulli did the same a little earlier in Japan.
  • Both actors filmed their first scenes together the first week of December in Mexico.
• At the end of October 2018, it was confirmed that Netflix and Televisa would partner again to create new content.
• Among one of the productions highlighted in his proposal was El último dragón.
• Several months later, Irina Baeva, one of the actors part of the cast, shared through her Instagram account that the series would have its premiere via streaming on October 4 2019 on Netflix, but with the title changed to El Dragón: El regreso de un guerrero.
  • This would be the first series of Televisa, to premiere online, after its premiere on television on September 30, 2019.
• On Netflix the series consists of 38 episodes.

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