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Finally, after years in development hell and various failed production announcements from the company Filmax, who even released promotional teaser trailers and one sheets at last year's Cannes Film Festival, the long awaited adaptation of Spanish comic book “El Capitán Trueno” is currently confirmed to be under pre-production under the title “Capitán Trueno y El Santo Grial”. The film will be directed in 3D by Antonio Hernández (“Los Borgia”) and will star Sergio Peris-Mencheta (“El Arte de Morir”) who just started his career over at the United States with the soon to be released films “Love Ranch” by Taylor Hackford and “Resident Evil: Afterlife”. The cast will be completed by Elsa Pataky (“Giallo”) and Spain's Adán Aliaga, who got his start in film with another comic book adaptation called “Estigmas”. Ironically the film will be no longer produced by Filmax but by Maltés Producciones and Sorolla Films with the collaboration...

Year: 2009

Directors: Adán Aliaga

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Review by: Marina Antunes

Rating: 8 out of 10

It’s difficult, if not nearly impossible, to walk into Adán Aliaga’s full length directorial debut without some consideration of the religious overtones that will undoubtedly appear in a film titled Estigmas (direct translation: stigmata) but Aliagan’s film isn’t concerned with the global apocalypse or the salvation of humanity but rather the exploration of one man’s life.

Bruno is a burly man with a soft demeanour. He’s kind, quiet and in trouble. An alcoholic, on the verge of being evicted and working for a man who takes advantage of his good will, he’s quickly being pushed into edges of life. He awakes one morning to find himself bleeding from wounds that have mysteriously appeared on his hands – stigmata. To Bruno, they are a curse, to his employer they are...

We first covered reported on this flick back in January of 2008, with the first stills dropping in October, and now we have the first teaser trailer. Directed by Adán Aliaga and adapted from a graphic novel by Lorenzo Mattotti and Claudio Piersanti about an alcoholic with tragic fate whose hands start to bleed, hence the Stigmata.

Estigmas is the story of Bruno, a rough man, strong and alcohol addicted. Bruno simply aims to be a normal person, but his fate is already written. One day he wakes up and his hands start bleeding. This is a trip to redemption through suffering, pain, and death. From now on he has to live with these new stigmas..

Teaser trailer after the break.