Prime Video leans into international originals for 2026
Prime Video is spotlighting its global slate as it prepares for a busy 2026. The streamer has seen non-English projects become major draws in recent seasons: the Spanish Culpables trilogy — capped by Culpa Nuestra (Our Fault) — has amassed more than 100 million viewers and hit number one across 170 countries with each release. Other international standouts on the platform include Maxton Hall, The World Between Us, and Germany’s breakout war thriller The Tank. Building on that momentum, Prime Video staged its first-ever international originals showcase to introduce upcoming series and announce expansion plans across formats and genres.
What Prime unveiled at the international showcase
The event mixed high-profile reboots with fresh international dramas. Highlights included:
- Plans to expand Prime’s anime offerings with a reboot of the post-apocalyptic classic Fist of the North Star and a new Ghost in the Shell production from Science SARU.
- New live-action projects such as the Korean psychological thriller Siren’s Kiss.
- The international series Masterplan, a French–Italian caper from director Thomas Vincent, which stars Stanley Tucci as a father who enlists his estranged children in a scheme to steal the Mona Lisa.
- A first look at The House of the Spirits, a Chilean adaptation of Isabel Allende’s bestselling novel — one of the most anticipated titles in the slate.
Prime released a new image and a preview clip from The House of the Spirits during the showcase, offering the earliest glimpses of the production’s visual approach to Allende’s layered, magical-realist world.
Adapting a literary classic: scope and story
The House of the Spirits will be an eight-episode, Spanish-language series that aims to translate the breadth of Allende’s 1982 novel to the screen. The book — which has sold more than 70 million copies worldwide and been translated into over 20 languages — chronicles multiple decades and follows generations of women in the Trueba family as they endure love, loss, and political upheaval.
The series promises to explore:
- Intergenerational relationships and the burden of family secrets.
- Social and political conflict that escalates into violence and revolution.
- The tension between a controlling family patriarch and a determined granddaughter at the story’s emotional center. The producers emphasize the show’s commitment to the novel’s magical-realist elements while charting the sweeping social changes that shape the family’s destiny.
International cast and creative leadership
Prime Video has assembled a high-profile, multinational ensemble and creative team for the series. The cast includes:
- Nicole Wallace (reuniting with Prime after her work on the Culpables trilogy)
- Alfonso Herrera
- Dolores Fonzi
- Juan Pablo Raba
- Fernanda Castillo
On the production side, Isabel Allende herself is attached as an executive producer, signaling authorial involvement in the adaptation. Eva Longoria is also listed among the executive producers. The showrunners and primary creative leads are Francisca Alegría, Fernanda Urrejola, and Andrés Wood, who collectively guide the project’s narrative and production vision.
How this TV adaptation follows earlier screen versions
Allende’s novel has been adapted before: a 1993 feature film directed by Bille August assembled an internationally known cast that included Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Winona Ryder, Jeremy Irons, and Antonio Banderas. While that film received accolades in Europe, it did not meet expectations among some U.S. critics. Prime’s new, expanded television format offers more room to develop the book’s layered characters and sprawling timeline, and the producers have signaled an ambition to do the source material justice across multiple episodes.
What to expect and when
The House of the Spirits is slated to premiere on Prime Video sometime in 2026. The eight-episode format, international cast, and authorial involvement position the series as a flagship example of the streamer’s strategy to invest in globally resonant, locally rooted storytelling. With the early image and clip now released, audiences can begin to anticipate how this storied novel will be translated into a large-scale television event.