TALITHA KUM: International Ass-Kicking Kung Fu Nuns Tackle Sex Trafficking In A New Epic Martial Arts Series
Variety’s John Hopewell brings word of a new Spanish action series now forthcoming in Talitha Kum. Marialy Rivas (Young & Wild) is directing the action drama from a script by Chilean playwright Manuela Infante (Invisible Heroes), and writers Enrique Videla (The Pack, Dignity, HBO’s Profugos). Talitha Kum culminates around a global covert organization of ass-kicking kung fu nuns who train in the confines of Convent of Sisters of Charity, before applying their deadly skills against Mexico’s most feared gangs to help free young girls from sex trafficking. Our story is set in Tenanchingo, Tlaxcala, South-East Mexico, where Magdalena, a young cloistered nun with fierce martial arts prowess, receives the call to infiltrate the criminal underworld of sex slavery just as war breaks out between rival gangs. As the rest of Hopewell’s report elucidates on Magdalena, though she’s “One hell of a bad ass when it comes to martial arts, Magdalena […]