“The grand experiment of creating something at any cost is over,” warned David Zaslav.
17.10.2022 - 23:19 / variety.com
At September’s San Sebastian Festival, Movistar+, Spain’s biggest content investor, hosted a press conference for the world premiere of its newest original, “Offworld” (“Apagón”), featuring five stories, all set in a Spain without electricity, the result of a massive solar storm. On-stage, fielding questions, were not “Offworld’s” actors, however, though they included Goya actress winner Patricia López Arnaiz, but the series’ screenwriters and directors. These took in Oscar nominee Rodrigo Sorogoyen (“Madre”), Isaki Lacuesta and Isa Campo, whose “The Double Steps” and “Between Two Waters” both won San Sebastian Golden Shells, and Alberto Rodríguez, director of Goya best picture winner “Marshland.”
In a new global TV scene, the stars are its signature creators; the battle for success is a battle for this top talent. How did Movistar+ back the biggest array of creative talent in Spanish TV history? “Modestly speaking, we’ve tried to create a culture at Movistar+ that attracts talent. We have a lot of respect for what creators want to tell and believe in them,” says Corral. “We will challenge creators, and sometimes convince them to make changes and sometime not. When we don’t convince them, we don’t try to impose anything, you have to assume their arguments, right or wrong.” Talent wants to be sure that their works will be made with the necessary resources. Backed by giant telco Telefonica, Movistar+ can stump up the budget for highly ambitious projects, such as “Offworld,” whose stories range across genres — a political thriller, hospital melodrama, a Western and coming of age and second chance dramas — and highly disparate settings. Professional and personal relations between writer-directors and broadcast execs
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