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In a cavernous studio outside Madrid teeming with TV industry stars, Netflix is blending old knowledge with modern technology to try to concoct a successor to its global hit “Money Heist”.<\/p>\n
The dystopia “Billionaires’ Bunker”, to be released on Friday and set in a gigantic underground fortress offering gyms, a garden and a fancy restaurant, is the US streaming giant’s latest Spanish superproduction.<\/p>\n
The aim is to conjure the magic of “Money Heist”, a series about a group of wily robbers who hold up the Spanish national mint, which was Netflix’s first non-English-language global success after launching in 2017.<\/p>\n
Migue Amoedo, visual artistic director of “Billionaires’ Bunker”, described “Money Heist” as “the turning point of the industry”, saying they now had “the recipe” for repeating its success.<\/p>\n
Almost 1,000 Netflix movies and series have been shot in Spain since 2017, highlighting the country’s role as a growing audiovisual production powerhouse.<\/p>\n
Co-chief executive Ted Sarandos has said the company’s Spanish titles generated more than five billion hours of viewing in 2024 alone.<\/p>\n
Spanish screenwriters Alex Pina and Esther Martinez Lobato were behind “Money Heist”, its spin-off “Berlin” and “Sky Rojo”, productions that underline the potential for local settings to reach worldwide stardom.<\/p>\n
“I am always surprised by the huge power of how an exotic local story can be universal at the same time,” Pina recently told reporters.<\/p>\n
“I don’t feel we had to change anything in terms of the programmes’ character, narrative or DNA,” he continued, saying Netflix demanded no adaptation.<\/p>\n
The site’s head of production, Victor Marti, added: “We are very happy to work from this narrow angle in the world… and offer our local storytelling to a global audience.”<\/p>\n
– Recipe for success –<\/p>\n
After bursting onto the Spanish market in 2015, Netflix inaugurated its first studios outside the United States in Madrid’s northern outskirts in 2019, making it a major European hub.<\/p>\n
In June, Netflix announced more than one billion euros ($1.2 billion) of investment in its Spanish productions through to 2029.<\/p>\n
The Tres Cantos studio harbours traditional physical decor together with cutting-edge technology such as digital plateaus within its almost 22,000 square metres (236,000 square feet) of space.<\/p>\n
In a hangar, a giant plateau measuring 30 metres long and six metres high brings to life static or animated images: a sea of clouds, a panorama of skyscrapers or a country road.<\/p>\n
“We have a little bit of everything here to shoot and produce… we are testing a lot of technologies for the first time,” said Marti.<\/p>\n
The technology “allows us to reduce the gap” between Spanish and European cinema and the United States, added Amoedo, who said 80 percent of “Billionaires’ Bunker” was shot indoors.<\/p>\n
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