In a market where there is an increasing supply of streaming platforms, Netflix wants to consolidate that it was the first to arrive and continues to deliver hits. Like ‘signing’ Baroness Thyssen and giving the green light to two projects produced by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi that usually turn everything they touch into serial gold. But the platform has much more content to release in 2024 and this week it showed off its chest in its presentation to the media.
Netflix surprised with two very attractive productions a priori. A documentary series about the life of Carmen Cervera, Baroness Thyssen, which will tell first-hand her story and her present and which will be produced by Komodo Studio, the makers of Soy Georgina. “It is time to tell my life from the beginning,” confirmed the same baroness who attended the presentation and that she said she was “very happy and excited that Netflix has thought of me.”
The second new project, which will be produced by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, is an adaptation of Mi Querida Señorita, a pioneering film about intersexuality directed by Jaime de Armiñán in 1972. “It is a film that marked an era, but times have changed.” changed and it is a good time to revisit it and fill in the gaps,” Ambrossi said.
The Javis also have another production underway on the platform, Superstar, a series created by Nacho Vigalondo about the artistic beginnings of the singer Yurena (formerly Tamara), which will star Ingrid García-Jonsson. “It is a story that reflects things that interest us, television as a double-edged sword, which first lifts you up and then pulls you down,” Ambrossi noted. It is also the story “of the triumph of antiheroes, of those people who were number one and stars without being called to be so.” The platform revealed that Natalia de Molina will play Loly Álvarez, Secun de la Rosa will play Leonardo Dantés, Pepón Nieto will play Tony Genil, Carlos Areces will play Paco Porras, Julián Villagrán will play Arlekin and Rocío Ibáñez will play Margarita Seisdedos, Tamara’s mother.
More Spanish series that will arrive in 2024, most of them already announced, are The Asunta Case, with Candela Peña and Tristán Ulloa as the parents of the young woman who was found murdered in Galicia in a case that shocked Spanish society; Iron Hand, a drug trafficking story set in the port of Barcelona with Chino Darín and Jaime Lorente; Clanes, more drug trafficking set in this case in Galicia and with Clara Lago and Tamar Novas as protagonists; Assault on the Central Bank, by Daniel Calparsoro, about the real hostage robbery that took place in Barcelona shortly after 23F in 1981.
Also premiering will be Respira, the new series by Carlos Montero (Elite) set in a public hospital and featuring Najwa Nimri, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón and Alfonso Bassave, among others; 1992, a thriller by Álex de la Iglesia about mysterious murders that repeat a pattern: the victims have been burned and next to the bodies appears a doll of Curro, the mascot of the Expo’92 in Seville; and The Last Night of Tremor, new fiction of supernatural phenomena and horror by Oriol Paulo based on the novel by Mikel Santiago and with Javier Rey and Ana Polvorosa. The eighth and final installment of Elite will also arrive. And filming is underway for the second season of The Snow Girl.
From foreign fiction will come The Gentlemen, Guy Ritchie’s new project inspired by the film he directed in 2019; The 3-Body Problem, the long-awaited new series from the creators of Game of Thrones, David Benioff and D. B. Weiss; One Hundred Years of Solitude, the adaptation of the great novel by Gabriel García Márquez; Black Doves, spy and secret identity series with Keira Knightley; Senna, biopic about the legendary Formula 1 driver and national hero in Brazil; and El Eternauta, an Argentine production based on a futuristic comic starring Ricardo Darín, his first work for Netflix.
More new proposals will be Monsters: the story of Lyle and Erik Menéndez, a new installment of Ryan Murphy’s anthology series (the first season was dedicated to serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer) with the real case of the brothers who killed their own parents in his Beverly Hills mansion in 1989 and which will feature Javier Bardem and Chloë Sevigny in its cast. The second season of The Squid Game and the third of The Bridgertons, two of the platform’s greatest hits, will also arrive in 2024.
From a Spanish production, the premiere will be El champion, a comedy set in the world of sports with Dani Rovira; Wall with wall, romantic comedy with Aitana and Fernando Guallar that adapts the French film Behind the wall; Through Your Look, the last installment of the Through My Window trilogy; and El hoyo 2, a continuation of the successful dystopian film by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia released in 2019 and which now stars Milena Smit and Hovik Keuchkerian as protagonists.
Foreign productions will also arrive such as Damsel, with Millie Bobby Brown in a reinvention of the tales of princes and princesses; Atlas, with Jennifer López as a data analyst who will have the mission of capturing a renegade robot with whom she shares a mysterious past; Back in action, with Cameron Díaz and Jamie Foxx turned into a married couple of spies; and the return of Inspector Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) in Hollywood Super Detective: Axel F.
On February 15, the platform will premiere the docuseries Pícaro: little Nicolás, the story of the rise and fall of this young man from Madrid who put the Government of Spain in check; UniverXO Dabiz, docureality about the award-winning chef Dabiz Muñoz; LaLiga 24, a docuseries that will include unpublished images of the football competition and the personal stories of the players; and Netflix’s El slam, a live broadcast of the exhibition matches that Rafa Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz will play on March 3 in Las Vegas. In addition, the platform has just released three new episodes of Every man for himself!, now with its protagonists traveling through Mexico, and will soon premiere the third season of Soy Georgina.
