The Spanish-language crime drama La Casa De Papel, or Money Heist, officially renewed for a fifth and final season on Netflix, according to an earlier announcement. The fourth season was released back on April 3 and consisted of eight episodes.
Following this, the cast of the Netflix series' returned to the sets as well. After pictures of Pedro Alonso alias Berlin filming portions of the show went viral, Úrsula Corberó alias Tokyo revealed that she would be joining her cast members.
Corberó on Thursday took to her Instagram story and shared a click with the caption, “Today. Tokio is back. Wish me luck.”
Earlier this week, several pictures of Alonso and Patrick Criado emerged on fan pages. It was previously speculated that Criado has boarded the cast as the new villain. But going by the images, many were left wondering whether Criado is actually a new gang member.
Alonso also shared a click with his co-star on Instagram and captioned it, “Monty and Python, obvious. Not the past, not the future.”
Whereas Alvaro Morte, who plays The Professor, had recently confirmed his return to the sets of the new season as well.
The internationally popular series follows an unusual group of robbers who, to start, plotted out “the most perfect robbery in Spanish history”, stealing billions from the Royal Mint of Spain. A second, masterfully executed heist involving the Bank of Spain in Madrid followed, though it did not come without great, personal cost to the Professor’s team of bandits.
The series creator Alex Pina had previously told Entertainment Weekly that Miguel Ángel Silvestre will also be joining the cast of Money Heist 5. We saw in the previous season that the gang overpowered Gandía. But whether he is alive or dead is not confirmed, and many are wondering if Miguel is the new villain. We have to wait to know more about that.
"We are moving from a chess game – a mere intellectual strategy – to a war strategy: attack and contention," said Pina. "This new goal raises the stakes while keeping the story fresh and maintaining the adrenaline that has always run through Money Heist. The war they've been pushed to start results in "the most epic part of all the parts we've shot," he added.
While Pina hadn't revealed complete details about the new faces and how they'll fit into the story, he did tease what they'll bring to the final season. "We always try that our opponents be charismatic, intelligent, shiny," he explains. "In this case, in a pure war film genre, we also look for characters whose intelligence can measure up against The Professor’s."
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