Netflix Spain Unveils New Projects From Oriol Paulo, Alberto Marini and Jon Sistiaga

Three of Spain’s most distinguished creators, “The Invisible Guest” director Oriol Paulo, “La Unidad” co-creator Alberto Marini and documentary maker Jon Sistiaga are spearheading new projects from Netflix Spain.

Paulo, whose mind-bending murder mystery “The Invisible Guest” grossed $25 million in China, has assembled a top-notch Spanish cast – Eduard Fernández (“The 47”), Mario Casas (“The Innocent”), Blanca Suárez (“Cable Girls”), Alexandra Jiménez (“The Innocent) – for what Netflix describes as “a fast-paced thriller where nothing is what it seems.”

The movie, currently in production, is produced by Juanita Films, behind Paulo’s latest original for Netflix, psychological thriller series “The Last Night at Tremore Beach.”

Co-creator of two Movistar Plus+ hits, Spanish intelligence services thriller “La Undid” and “Marbella” – a fun dramedy-thriller set in the sybaritic drug gang world of Marbella – screenwriter Marini is now set to make one of his earliest incursions into direction, with “Lobo,” from “The Unit” and “Gangs of Galicia” producer Vaca Films.

A miniseries now shooting, “Lobo” is inspired by Spain’s first recorded case of a serial killer, Manuel Blanco Romasanta, a traveling tailor in rural Galicia who when arrested in 1852 claimed in his defence that he was a werewolf. “Lobo” stars Luis Tosar (“Sky High”) and features Tristán Ulloa (“Berlín”). Marini co-writes with “La Unidad” editor Juan Galiñanes and co-directs with Javier Rodríguez Delgado, a co-ordinatng director on “Gangs of Galicia.”

Sistiaga is directing “Miguel Ángel Blanco: las 48 horas que lo cambiaron todo,” a doc-feature co-directed with Juanjo López and produced by The Tintirin Team.

It explores the two days after Blanco’s abduction by terrorist org ETA in 1997 during when millions of people mobilized in a desperate attempt to prevent his threatened murder, “an agonizingly delayed death that left a lasting scar on Spanish society. The documentary revisits that crucial moment of solidarity and compassion, when Basque society lost its fear to ETA,” Netflix said in a statement Monday.
More to come.