In a cavernous studio exterior Madrid teeming with TV trade stars, Netflix is mixing previous data with trendy know-how to attempt to concoct a successor to its world hit “Money Heist”, broadly thought of essentially the most profitable Spanish sequence ever.
The dystopia “Billionaires’ Bunker”, to be launched on Friday and set in a big underground fortress providing gyms, a backyard and a elaborate restaurant, is the US streaming big’s newest Spanish super-production.
The purpose is to conjure the magic of “Money Heist”, a sequence a couple of group of wily robbers who maintain up the Spanish nationwide mint, which was Netflix’s first non-English-language world success after launching in 2017.
Migue Amoedo, visible inventive director of “Billionaires’ Bunker” (El Refugio Atómico in Spanish), described “Money Heist” (La Casa de Papel) as “the turning level of the trade”, saying they now had “the recipe” for repeating its success.
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Almost 1,000 Netflix motion pictures and sequence have been shot in Spain since 2017, highlighting the nation’s position as a rising audiovisual manufacturing powerhouse.
Co-chief govt Ted Sarandos has stated the corporate’s Spanish titles generated greater than 5 billion hours of viewing in 2024 alone.
Spanish screenwriters Alex Pina and Esther MartÃnez Lobato have been behind “Money Heist”, its spin-off “Berlin” and “Sky Rojo”, productions that underline the potential for native settings to succeed in worldwide stardom.
“I’m at all times shocked by the massive energy of how an unique native story might be common on the similar time,” Pina not too long ago instructed reporters.
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“I do not really feel we needed to change something when it comes to the programmes’ character, narrative or DNA,” he continued, saying Netflix demanded no adaptation.
The web site’s head of manufacturing, Victor MartÃ, added: “We are very comfortable to work from this slim angle on the planet… and supply our native storytelling to a world viewers.”
‘Recipe for fulfillment’
After bursting onto the Spanish market in 2015, Netflix inaugurated its first studios exterior the United States in Madrid’s northern outskirts in 2019, making it a serious European hub.
In June, Netflix introduced greater than €1 billion ($1.2 billion) of funding in its Spanish productions via to 2029.
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The Tres Cantos studio harbours conventional bodily decor along with cutting-edge know-how similar to digital plateaus inside its virtually 22,000 sq. metres (236,000 sq. ft) of area.
In a hangar, an enormous plateau measuring 30 metres lengthy and 6 metres excessive brings to life static or animated photographs: a sea of clouds, a panorama of skyscrapers or a rustic street.
“We have a little bit little bit of every thing right here to shoot and produce… we’re testing numerous applied sciences for the primary time,” stated Marti.
The know-how “permits us to scale back the hole” between Spanish and European cinema and the United States, added Amoedo, who stated 80 % of “Billionaires’ Bunker” was shot indoors.
