Netflix has mentioned it’ll clock greater than 30 Spanish-language tasks throughout movie, collection, and non-fiction documentaries by the 12 months’s finish. The information was unveiled by Verónica Fernández, Director of Collection for Spain and Portugal at an occasion to mark the growth 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 mentioned the brand new amenities “assure” that creatives in Spain could have the “means to proceed to inform their tales.”
“Nobody thought we’d have a lot ongoing manufacturing and Spanish content material,” she mentioned at a Q&A session in the course of the opening occasion. “We’re 500 million Spanish audio system, however this content material has gone past.”
The Tres Cantos phases have housed a few of Netflix’s greatest productions from Spain, together with La noche más larga, Valeria, Fuimos canciones, and Cash Heist (La casa de papel).
The rising slate of tasks on the lot contains Carlos Montero’s well-liked high-school drama Elite, which moved to Tres Cantos to shoot its forthcoming seventh collection in addition to the Cash Heist spin-off titled Berlin from the unique collection creators Álex Pina and Esther Martínez Lobato.
Lobato mentioned growing the collection has been a “nice duty” and a “burden” because of the reputation of the unique present.
“It begins from a connection that already exists with the viewers and, as creators, we need to proceed deepening this emotion,” Lobato mentioned.
The pair additionally teased particulars of a second untitled collection in manufacturing at Netflix, which is able to happen in an underground bunker. The pair shared drawings of the expansive set for the collection, which they mentioned was impressed by the “proliferation of bunkers all over the world” in the course of the COVID pandemic.
“We imagined a subway urbanization the place the main target, as an alternative of the apocalypse, was on those that lived within the area. The large query this venture addresses is: does life nonetheless go on even whereas the world is ending,” Pina mentioned.
Pina has additionally teamed up with director David Pastor for a Spanish-language spin-off of the Sandra Bullock hit Chicken Field. Pastor mentioned 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. Nevertheless, the pair mentioned the flick will probably be “a terrific international story.”
Tres Cantos can also be house to among the streamer’s non-Spanish language tasks similar to KAOS, the most recent collection from The Finish of the F***ing World creator Charlie Covell. The collection 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 take care of corrupt and boastful gods of the Greek and Roman mythologies. Jeff Goldblum will play Zeus within the collection.
Government producer Chris Fry was on the bottom in Madrid and advised guests to Tres Cantos that the present could be thematically hybrid.
“It’s not togas and sandals, it’s tracksuits and trainers,” Fry mentioned. “Zeus wears a Gucci tracksuit. Additionally, the worlds aren’t fantasy. It’s very a lot grounded in what we acknowledge as our actual world. It’s only a bit extra heightened.”
Fry added that he and his producing group introduced the collection to Spain due to the nation’s local weather, the standard of Spanish crew, and the beneficiant tax rebate system provided to productions shot within the nation.
“The Spanish have an excellent tax rebate for productions. It’s a very vital a part of any movie or tv manufacturing being financed,” he mentioned.
Spanish and worldwide productions can presently entry a tax rebate of as much as 30%, with a most refund of €10 million.
Miquel Iceta, Spain’s Minister of Tradition 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 “candy second” for the Spanish audio-visual business.
The minister additionally shrugged off the suggestion that Netflix and conventional exhibitors had been in competitors, citing a latest dialogue he mentioned he had with a “very well-known Spanish movie director” who mentioned: “Minimize the crap. The platforms and theatres shouldn’t combat one another.”
He added: “Individuals are not returning to theatres the way in which they used to and that has been our focus however that doesn’t make us reject the work that’s being performed and will probably be proven in several platforms.”
