Tom Winchester’s Pure Fiction Television Secures Rights to Dolores Redondo’s Best-Selling Baztan Series of Novels (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comLeo Barraclough International Features Editor Pure Fiction Television, the independent production company helmed by Tom Winchester (“Shogun,” “Clickbait,” “The Capture”), has secured the rights to bestselling author Dolores Redondo’s Baztan Trilogy and the prequel, “La Cara Norte Del Corazón” (The North Face of the Heart), and is developing them into a returning, premium international TV series.
The trilogy and prequel novel, which feature homicide detective Amaia Salazar, are gripping psychological thrillers infused with mystery, mythology and superstition, set in the beautiful Basque region of Northern Spain, as well as in New Orleans.
The books have been translated into 39 languages. Pure Fiction is developing the project with screenwriter and playwright Lydia Adetunji, whose credits include “His Dark Materials,” “Noughts & Crosses” and “The Last Kingdom.” Winchester has secured the rights to all four novels having previously optioned “La Cara Norte Del Corazón” whilst president of Heyday Television.
German producer Peter Nadermann previously owned the film rights to the Baztan trilogy of novels and will act as an executive producer on the series.
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