Well, as a Latin American Historian by profession, I can’t tell you how long I’ve been waiting for this one! I have to agree though that this isn’t going to be a “Spanish save the day” film, but a “corrupt civilization with no regard for life or the environment implodes on itself” film. By the time of the Spanish arrival, virtually every Mayan city was abandoned, with the principal exception of Tulum on the Yucatecan coast, and even that didn’t last much longer. I find it improbable, but not impossible, that the Spanish will show up in this film. If they do, I would predict that it would be in a cameo at the end, walking on shore to find a completely abandoned city, or something like that, with a cut to the credits. This may not even deal with the final downfall of the Maya, but the collapse of the “Classical” Maya around 900 AD. I suspect, given the location though, that it takes place around 1400. I’ll be sure to post a good objective historical review after I see it.
