Zeta Studios will adapt 'García!' for HBO Max Spain

The graphic novel ¡García! will arrive on the platform HBO Max Spain in 2022. This six-episode series will be produced by Zeta Studios for WarnerMedia.

Sara Antuña y Carlos of Pando are the creators and scriptwriters of the series, based on the work of Santiago García y Luis Busts published by Astiberri Editions. Eugenio Mira (Grand Piano) will direct the six episodes, which will be one hour long.

Miguel Salvat, Steve Matthews and Antony Root are executive producers of the series. The Max Originals ordered in Europe are produced by the division WarnerMedia Original Programming led by Antony Root. Production services are provided by García The Series, a subsidiary company of Zeta Studios, for WarnerMedia.

A cryogenic Francoist

Set in a hypothetical present-day Spain, in a divided country on the brink of political chaos, the series stars Antonia (Veki Velilla), a young investigative journalist who stumbles upon a conspiracy hatched decades ago: the existence of a super agent. cryogenized, García (Francisco Ortiz), created in a laboratory in the 1950s by General Franco's secret services.

This perfect soldier with superhuman strength and programmed to obey orders without questioning them will be awakened by Antonia. Upon emerging from his lethargy, García feels disoriented and confused in a Spain that he finds completely changed. HBO continues detailing the plot of the series: “The old world collides with the current one as García and Antonia learn to work together when they become involved in a political conspiracy that threatens to end democracy in favor of a new and brutal dictatorship.”

In addition to Francisco Ortiz and Veki Velilla, the cast also includes actors such as Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Francisco Reyes, Daniel Freire, Nico Romero, Helio Pedregal, Mario Pardo, Miki Molina, Marina Gatell, Pepe Ocio and Silvia Abascal.

Ambitious project

Antonio Asensio, President of Zeta Study, consider ¡García! one of the big bets of the production company: “This is a very ambitious project that represents an important challenge at the production level and that we are very excited to start making a reality. We are sure that doing so together with HBO, one of the most important and benchmark companies in the sector, will mark the beginning of a fruitful stage of collaboration together.”

For his part, the producer executed Miguel Saved has added: "¡García! It is a project with enormous narrative and visual ambition. It is designed down to the smallest detail to be a fun series, full of action and adventure, sometimes respecting the tradition of the genre and sometimes blowing it up. With ¡García! "We are going to enjoy a story full of surprises in which we will see that many things have changed in our country over the decades, but others have not moved at all."

Director Eugenio Mira shares the enthusiasm of his classmates: “When I read the first episode of ¡García!, I really enjoyed identifying in its ingredients so many elements that I have always liked, but it was the freshness that the combination of the references emanated and the feeling of not having read something like that before that completely conquered me. Being able to play with such original material, with such a rich universe and characters that never stop growing while trying to make sense of the constant twists and revelations contained in the plot, is a great technical and artistic challenge. And a huge privilege.”

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