In 2014, The CW announced it would adapt this series for the US market and call it The Magellan. But it was never produced.
Filming of the Estrella Polar was done aboard the Cervantes Saavedra. It was launched as a lightvessel named Sydostbrotten (Nr 33) 1934 from the Swedish shipyard Götaverken, in Gothenburg. In 1970, the ship was sold and refitted at the Aveiro shipyard in Portugal. The refit converted the vessel into an iron-hulled barquentine with three masts and a bowsprit.