A documentary series about the life of Baroness Thyssen and an adaptation of the iconic film My Dear Lady, produced by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, are the main novelties that Netflix presented this morning at an event in Madrid in which it gave Learn about the most notable series, movies, documentaries and reality shows that will premiere in 2024.
Without a doubt, the star content has been the new project that will star Carmen Cervera, Baroness Thyssen, which will be directed by Komodo Studio, the creators of Soy Georgina. The Baroness has attended the event and confirmed that this docuseries will tell first-hand her story and her present and will reveal many questions that the public has been wondering for years. “It’s time to tell my life from the beginning. “I am very happy and excited that Netflix has thought of me,” she said.
The other great novelty presented by the platform is My dear lady, an adaptation of the film of the same name directed in 1972 by Jaime de Arimañán, who signed the script with José Luis Borau, and which starred José Luis López Vázquez. The film was nominated for the Oscar for best foreign film in 1973. This adaptation will be produced by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, who also attended the event. “We believe it is a good time to revisit this story, a wonderful and mainstream story of gender identity and love. The creative challenge is how far it can be updated without losing the essence,” they have advanced.
The Javis also took advantage of the event to present the first image in character of the cast of Superestar, the new series created by Nacho Vigalondo that will revolve around the artistic beginnings of the singer Yurena. Ingrid García-Jonsson plays Tamara (now known as Yurena), Natalia de Molina plays Loly Álvarez, Secun de la Rosa plays Leonardo Dantés, Pepón Nieto plays Tony Genil, Carlos Areces plays Paco Porras, Julián Villagrán plays Arlequín and Rocío Ibáñez plays Margarita. Sixfingers, Tamara’s mother.
Regarding Superestar, Javi Ambrossi commented that “the project represents television as a double-edged sword, the triumph of antiheroes”, while Javi Calvo added that “we wanted to do something wild, crazy, because it was a time of change in Spain. There were no rules, everything could be done on television.”
During the day, previews of what Netflix is ??preparing this year for Spain were also presented, in which the content of documentaries and ‘realities’ is reinforced with docuseries such as ‘La Liga 24’, which will follow the protagonists of La Liga football , ‘Univerxo Dabiz’, about the daily life of chef Dabiz Muñoz or ‘The Netflix slam’, an exhibition match between Rafa Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz. Also a documentary series about Little Nicholas, which will premiere on February 15 and a new installment of ‘I’m Georgina’, about his life in Saudi Arabia.
Among the fiction series, already announced, highlights the premiere of ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’, which adapts the great novel by Gabriel García Márquez, and the second season of Ryan Murphy’s anthology ‘Monsters’, which will feature Javier Bardem and Chloë Sevigny and will tell the story of brothers Lyle and Erik Menéndez, who killed their own parents in their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989.
More fictions that will arrive in 2024 are ‘The Asunta Case’, with Candela Peña and Tristán Ulloa who play the parents of the young woman who was murdered in Galicia in a case that shocked Spanish society, and ‘1992’, by Álex de the Church, set in the Seville Expo that follows mysterious murders that always repeat the same pattern: the victims have been burned and next to the bodies appears a doll of Curro, the Expo’s mascot.