Antonio Banderas to Star in AI-Powered Feature ‘Cortes’ From Utopai Studios

By Corbin Bolies

Corbin Bolies

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The latest celebrity to endorse an AI studio? Antonio Banderas.

The Oscar-nominated actor will star as Hernán Cortés in Utopai Studios‘ “Cortés,” a new feature directed by Paul Mignot (“Vaincre ou mourir”) and written by fellow Oscar nominee Nicholas Kazan (“Reversal of Fortune”). The film is currently in production in Paris and focuses on Banderas’ Cortés as a glory-hungry soldier in 1519 who leads an expedition to the Yucatán.

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