José Luis Moreno ordered to return €35 million to his partner
It has been proven that the producer has not delivered three series that he had committed to making.
BarcelonaA Madrid court has ordered producer José Luis Moreno to return €35,264,686 to his partner Alejandro Roemmers for failure to deliver three television series. The ruling concludes that it is proven that Moreno "has not completed or delivered the first ten episodes of the series." Glow and darkness, about the life of Saint Francis of Assisi. The other breach is that the ten 45-minute episodes of the series have not been produced either. Oxford Street Agency nor of that of Family Online".
Glow and darkness It was planned as a large-scale production: it is a project in English and with Hollywood stars such as Joan Collins (Dynasty), Jane Seymour (Dr. Quinn) or Denise Richards (Wild Games). The series began filming in mid-2020 without any channel or platform having a commitment to broadcast it. The producer and also ventriloquist presented the series with great fanfare two months before the pandemic began. He then explained that the drama, for which he had hired Pedro Almodóvar's director of photography, José Luis Alcaine, would focus on Saint Francis of Assisi and some of the figures who surrounded him. He also detailed that it was a multi-million dollar project written and directed by himself that would have a budget of between 260 and 280 million euros, since each of the 45 episodes would cost approximately 6 million, figures that would make Glow and darkness would approach The Crown, which in its first season cost around 130 million dollars (110 million euros).
However, filming never ended. In early 2021, filming was halted, and a large part of the crew was laid off. Media outlets such as Bluper They indicated that the strike was due to Alejandro Guillermo Roemmers' decision to stop injecting money after having made a large initial investment and after realizing a lack of a platform to broadcast it and thus make the series profitable.
José Luis Moreno is a regular at the courtsThe sentence was handed down while he is under investigation by the National Court in the Titella case, an alleged case of defrauding banks and private investors seeking financing. He had only just pleaded guilty on March 3rd to another alleged fraud against the Treasury amounting to €3.4 million between 2017 and 2021.