Marcos Santana Reveals First Mas Ros Media Title, ‘The New Recreation’

Launched final week by ex-Telemundo prime exec Marcos Santana, Mas Ros Media, a groundbreaking new enterprise focusing on gaming, esports and sustainability, has unveiled a primary title: Banner collection “The New Recreation.”

An eight-part Spanish-language scripted collection, “The New Recreation” is created by Santana himself and Rodrigo Figueroa Reyes, founder and head of FireSports, the No. 2 esports firm in Latin America and No. 3 in Spain, wherein Mas Ros has taken an fairness place.

Billed by Santana as an motion drama, “The New Recreation” activates upper-middle-class household, father, mom and three kids, the elder, Isa, a first-year-university pupil learning for a medical diploma, Ralph, at high-school, who performs half his free time taking part in a online game; and Federico, simply 9, whose hero is Ralph. 

The motion begins with Ralph’s dad coming house and discovering him within the midst of a giant recreation and ripping the cables out of his laptop, disconnecting his workforce and a whole match. Ralph is hospitalised by his dad and mom, on the recommendation of Dr. Chirinos, a really old-school psychiatrist. 

And that’s simply the primary four-minute arrange. Even its earliest stretches as presently imagined by Santana and Figueroa Reyes say rather a lot about “The New Recreation.” 

According to the propulsive, plot pushed type of U.S. drama, “the collection can be filled with motion scenes, never-before-seen visible results, and a narrative that can hold younger and outdated alike on edge from begin to end,” a presentation guarantees. 

“Course, images, as manufacturing design, may be very a lot within the line of ‘Euphoria,’ however seen from a Latin viewpoint,” Santana mentioned. 

“We’re not attempting to repeat anyone, and far much less ship an ‘Anglo’ story,” mentioned Santana. “However we do need to transfer close to to the rhythm and inventive high quality of quite a lot of U.S. collection. My aim has all the time been – and the trade is aware of it – to lift ever extra the inventive high quality of every challenge.”

But the drama additionally marks a play for Latino audiences. It’s set throughout the Spanish-speaking world, and can be shot between Spain, Miami and Mexico, Santana mentioned. The household lives in Barcelona; the mom is a Mexican clothier launching a line in recyclable garments; however Ralph’s first vid recreation is dealing with off in a giant match with one of the best groups in Mexico. 

Now in superior improvement, “The New Recreation” additionally activates two points which centre a lot of Latino leisure: Romance and household dynamics. 

On-line, the match will enable audiences to see briefly the members of different groups taking part in from their rooms, which is able to give rise to completely different love tales, motion drama and intrigue. 

Isa, as is proven in round minute 5 of Episode 1, rushes off to medical faculty, to find that her tutor is Thomas, a fourth-year pupil with whom she’s fallen head over heels in love. He’s described as “very good-looking, a tall dark-haired man with nice Afro half Rastafarian costume,” which can or might not sit properly along with her dad and mom.

Saying Mas Ros Media, Santana mentioned that it might goal gaming and esports communities and their households and buddies.

On this sense, “The New Recreation” is “essentially the most consultant” of Mas Ros Media’ first titles] in that it contains “most people, and gamers,” Santana informed Selection. 

That cuts a number of methods. For the uninitiated, the opening scene catches Ralph taking part in Riot Video games’ Valorant, the vastly fashionable shooter, the place he occupies the rank of Immortal 3 and is about to ascend to Radiant, the sport’s highest stage. As Ralph performs within the first scene, photographs of the sport are interspersed right here, demonstrating his extraordinary capacity. 

Characters’ feelings will generally be rendered through a design as in the event that they have been in the course of a online game, mentioned Santana.

Charting the demographic divide between dad and mom and offspring cleaving Spain and Latin America, as the remainder of the world, in what is probably its greatest departure, “The New Recreation” additionally clearly sides with the gaming world, displaying how it’s misunderstood by an older era, Santana recognised.

Confronting Ralph, his father accuses him of “losing his life, his future, with these little video games” and of being in poor health, ineffective and a social misfit. Isa discovers that Thomas, the College’s No. 1 pupil, can be knowledgeable gamer, which helps her perceive the big injustice her dad and mom are committing with Ralph.    

“The New Recreation” is considered one of 16 titles now in improvement at Mas Ros Media, starting from 6-8 episode fiction collection to documentaries, actuality reveals and flicks. Sequence will differ in size in response to topic, mentioned Santana. Normally, with collection, none will go over 10 episodes. 

Additional collection are being written – “The Future,” “Tremendous Pure,” “Hipotalmo” – with 10 extra in improvement, Santana added.