EXCLUSIVE: Netflix Brazil is bringing Paulo Coelho’s The Pilgrimage to the screen. The streamer has greenlit a film adaptation of the Brazilian author’s novel, which will shoot in Brazil and Spain.
The commission was announced during Netflix’s session at the Rio2C market in Brazil and Coelho shared the news in a video message for attendees.
Rio based Migdal Filmes will produce. The Pilgrimage, first published in 1987, is one of Coelho’s early novels. In the book, he recounts a journey across Spain on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.
He is accompanied by a spiritual guide and mentor and the novel deals with the main protagonist’s quest for spiritual learning and fulfilment.
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