Disney Working On TV Series Based On Julio Cesar Chavez

Disney are working on a new bio drama TV series based on Mexican boxing icon Julio Cesar Chavez, called “El Cesar”.  The series is about his life and career which saw Cesar winning six world titles across three weight divisions

The show is being worked on by Disney Media Distribution Latin America, Mexico’s TV Azteca and shingle BTF Media and is set to be a 26 episode series.

The show will air in the US on Telemundo and on pay TV network Space Latin America.  The show will be shot on location in Chavez’s native town of Culiacan, Sinaloa as well as Mexico City and Los Angeles. His favorite music, Nortenos, will be a key component of the storytelling.

“El Cesar” will tell the story Mexico’s boxing idol who remained undefeated for more than 13 years in the 1980s and ’90s, but fell from a life of privilege, fame and fortune into the netherworld of drug dealers, addictions and scandal that destroyed his career and nearly took his life. He retired from boxing in 2005.

“The life of Julio Cesar Chavez, a legendary idol from the world of boxing, will be of great interest not only for U.S. Hispanics who saw him succeed as a world champion, but also for a whole new generation of Latinos in this country,” said Telemundo president Luis Silberwasser.

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