PAMPLONA, Spain — Taking a new expansive step as an international content player, top Argentine production house Pol-ka, has optioned small-screen rights to “El cielo a tiros,” the latest n…
, has optioned small-screen rights to “El cielo a tiros,” the latest novel from “Rosario Tijeras” author, Colombian novelist Jorge Franco.planning to shoot a drama series based on the book in Medellín, Colombia in 2020.
Published in 2018, “El cielo a tiros” turns on the children of Medellín’s drug lords of the 1990s, following one, Larry, who returns to Colombia after 12 years abroad to reclaim his father’s remains from a mass grave. He reencounters his childhood best friend, Pedro, and his mother, a former Colombia beauty queen, now sunk in depression and drug-addiction, and discovers a city, Medellín, which still shows the ravages of the past.
Rights to the novel were negotiated through Scenic Rights, a Spain-based literary agency which represents the stage or screen adaptation rights of most of the the major writers in Latin America. Since then it has teamed with Disney to make “Violetta,” an international calling card, struck a strategic co-production alliance with Turner Latin America from “The Fragility of Bodies” in 2016 when it also co-produced “Love Divine” with Mexico’s Televisa, and snagged a Netflix order for the streaming giant’s third Netflix Original Series order in Argentina. 2017’s “The Bronze Garden” was hailed by HBO as its most-watched Latin American series of the year.
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