The veteran actor stars in DMAX’s new format, where the most sophisticated prison escape plans are explored
He took on the role of prisoner Ellis Boyd ‘Red’ Redding in the famous film ‘Life Sentence’. There he played a smuggling inmate at Shawshank State Penitentiary. The portrayal of the unbeatable Morgan Freeman in this film, a film adaptation of Stephen King’s acclaimed novel, earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Actor. Now 28 years old, the interpreter goes through the bars of a cell again, but this time as the host of ‘Historical Escapes’, the new series that DMAX will premiere next Tuesday (10pm) based on the most elaborate escape plans and amazing history.
The series, in eight themed episodes, visits some of the most important high-security prisons in the world, along with the actor, where he shows from the cells how the escape plans were made that impacted society by bypassing the most difficult systems. and most advanced security systems of its time.
Freeman enters several prisons to investigate first-hand how the criminals could escape, with a plan in which all the details were studied step by step and then became legends for the rest of the inmates. ‘Historic Escapes’ goes further, incorporating maps of real escape routes into the production, as well as recreations of persecutions or the testimonies of cellmates and prison guards.
The new series features CGI sequences with Unreal Egine technology, which can give historical images more realism thanks to the real-time 3D system. This provides the viewer with a more immersive and real experience. With these advances, the program team was able to rebuild the cells and even the ventilation shafts, tunnels and walls of the prisons.
Throughout the season, the DMAX space dedicates one of its episodes to one of the most popular drug traffickers in the world, Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, better known as Chapo Guzmán. The Mexican starred in numerous breakouts during his time in prisons in Mexico and the United States.
The series also focuses on Alcatraz Prison, located on an island and turned into a cinematic icon and myth among prisons after it was the scene of several prisoner escape attempts throughout history (think, for example, the fireproof Clint Eastwood who killed the criminal). Frank played Morris in the 1979 film). This chapter depicts four inmates’ devised escape plan through the perilous San Francisco Bay swim to reach the mainland. They will also show the escape at Maze Prison, in Belfast, Ireland, when some 40 inmates managed to escape camouflaged in a food truck exiting the prison.
Source: La Verdad
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