Pure Fiction Television is developing a returning, premium international TV series based on Dolores Redondo's Baztan Trilogy and the prequel, La Cara Norte del Corazón (The North Face of the Heart). Variety reported that the independent production company, headed by Tom Winchester (Shogun, Clickbait, The Capture), has secured the rights to the books, which have been translated into 39 languages.
Pure Fiction is developing the project with screenwriter and playwright Lydia Adetunji (His Dark Materials, Noughts & Crosses, The Last Kingdom). The adaptation will be in Spanish and English.
"When I first read The North Face of the Heart, I couldn't put it down," Winchester said. "It's a unique mix of supernatural crime drama, psychological thriller and epic disaster movie. All of the Baztan novels are real page-turners, featuring an intelligent and emotionally intuitive female lead in Amaia. Dolores already has a global fanbase and in Lydia Adetunji we have found a world-class screenwriter who will bring Amaia to life for a whole new audience via this premium adaptation.
"We want to keep true to Dolores's visceral Spanish sensibility and intend to work with European partners to bring an epic and authentic feel to the series, something Pure Fiction is hugely passionate about; developing big, bold returning series that subvert expectation and have something to say about the world in which we live."