Netflix has stated it would clock greater than 30 Spanish-language tasks throughout movie, sequence, and non-fiction documentaries by the 12 months’s finish. The information was unveiled by Verónica Fernández, Director of Series for Spain and Portugal at an occasion to mark the enlargement of the streamer’s manufacturing hub in Tres Cantos, Madrid.
Netflix has been out there in Spain since 2015. The streamer’s Tres Cantos campus opened in 2019 and has since doubled its stage capability and now options ten units and a multi-purpose area that features the corporate’s first in-house post-production facility.
Fernández stated the brand new amenities “guarantee” that creatives in Spain can have the “means to continue to tell their stories.”
“No one thought we would have so much ongoing production and Spanish content,” she stated at a Q&A session in the course of the opening occasion. “We are 500 million Spanish speakers, but this content has gone beyond.”
The Tres Cantos levels have housed a few of Netflix’s greatest productions from Spain, together with La noche más larga, Valeria, Fuimos canciones, and Money Heist (La casa de papel).
The rising slate of tasks on the lot consists of Carlos Montero’s in style high-school drama Elite, which moved to Tres Cantos to shoot its forthcoming seventh sequence in addition to the Money Heist spin-off titled Berlin from the unique sequence creators Álex Pina and Esther Martínez Lobato.
Lobato stated creating the sequence has been a “great responsibility” and a “burden” because of the reputation of the unique present.
“It starts from a connection that already exists with the viewers and, as creators, we want to continue deepening this emotion,” Lobato stated.
The pair additionally teased particulars of a second untitled sequence in manufacturing at Netflix, which is able to happen in an underground bunker. The pair shared drawings of the expansive set for the sequence, which they stated was impressed by the “proliferation of bunkers around the world” in the course of the COVID pandemic.
“We imagined a subway urbanization where the focus, instead of the apocalypse, was on those who lived in the space. The big question this project addresses is: does life still go on even while the world is ending,” Pina stated.
Pina has additionally teamed up with director David Pastor for a Spanish-language spin-off of the Sandra Bullock hit Bird Box. Pastor stated the pair determined to signal on for the remake as a result of they consider the movie’s narrative is one which has by no means existed in Spain. However, the pair stated the flick will likely be “a great global story.”
Tres Cantos can be residence to a few of the streamer’s non-Spanish language tasks resembling KAOS, the newest sequence from The End of the F***ing World creator Charlie Covell. The sequence is billed as a “mythological dark-comedy” centered round six people as they uncover their connection to one another and to a long-standing historical prophecy whereas they cope with corrupt and smug gods of the Greek and Roman mythologies. Jeff Goldblum will play Zeus within the sequence.
Executive producer Chris Fry was on the bottom in Madrid and informed guests to Tres Cantos that the present can be thematically hybrid.
“It’s not togas and sandals, it’s tracksuits and trainers,” Fry stated. “Zeus wears a Gucci tracksuit. Also, the worlds aren’t fantasy. It’s very much grounded in what we recognize as our real world. It’s just a bit more heightened.”
Fry added that he and his producing staff introduced the sequence to Spain due to the nation’s local weather, the standard of Spanish crew, and the beneficiant tax rebate system supplied to productions shot within the nation.
“The Spanish have a very good tax rebate for productions. It’s a really important part of any film or television production being financed,” he stated.
Spanish and worldwide productions can at present entry a tax rebate of as much as 30%, with a most refund of €10 million.
Miquel Iceta, Spain’s Minister of Culture and Sport, gave an deal with on the occasion and described the present circulate of manufacturing in Spain together with Netflix’s funding in Tres Cantos as a “sweet moment” for the Spanish audio-visual trade.
The minister additionally shrugged off the suggestion that Netflix and conventional exhibitors have been in competitors, citing a latest dialogue he stated he had with a “very well-known Spanish film director” who stated: “Cut the crap. The platforms and theatres shouldn’t fight each other.”
He added: “People are not returning to theatres the way they used to and that has been our focus but that doesn’t make us reject the work that is being done and will be shown in different platforms.”
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