Steven Spielberg Is Teaming Up With Amazon for a New Original Series

Steven Spielberg is poised to create a four-hour-long miniseries based on Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés for Amazon. Working once again alongside Steven Zaillian (Schindler's List), he will write the series based on an old screenplay by Dalton Trumbo. The show will follow Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men) as Cortés in his unsanctioned expedition to Mexico to subsequently crush the Aztec empire and depict his rise as governor of the "New Spain of the Ocean Sea." The series will focus ...