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His latest novel, ‘The North Face of the Heart’, will be adapted for an American television series by Heyday Films, a brand that is part of NBC Universal International Studios
The latest novel by Dolores Redondo, ‘The North Face of the Heart’, will be adapted for an American television series by Heyday Films, a brand that is part of NBC Universal International Studios and which has produced, among many other projects, all the films of the ‘Harry Potter’ saga. David Heyman and Tom Winchester, founder and president of Heyday Television respectively, will be responsible for the production.
Dolores Redondo (San Sebastián, 1969) has expressed her satisfaction with this project: «The present and the future that Hollywood has proposed to me allows me to dream big. I have always been aware of the technical difficulties involved in adapting ‘The North Face of the Heart’, taking place in a real setting like New Orleans and a catastrophe like Hurricane Katrina. It reassures me enormously that my novel is in the hands of Heyday and NBCUniversal, for me the best in the world and with demonstrated ability to achieve a great work at the production and special effects level. And above all I am very happy to be sure that the producers involved in the project are moved by the same affection and respect for the good people of New Orleans as those who moved me when writing the novel, “said the writer
The novel ‘The north face of the heart’, published in 2019, is considered the prequel to the ‘Baztán Trilogy’, one of the great literary phenomena of the last decade, and the film adaptations of the three novels (‘The invisible guardian ‘,’ Legacy in the bones’ and ‘Offering to the storm’) were the first adaptations of Spanish cinema of a great literary saga, indicates the editorial Destino, which publishes the books, which recalls that their film adaptations can be seen on Netflix on an international level. In all three films, it was Marta Etura who played Inspector Salazar.
‘The north face of the heart’ begins in August 2005, long before the crimes that shocked the Baztán valley, a twenty-five-year-old Amaia Salazar, a deputy inspector of the Navarre Provincial Police, with childhood traumas, participates in a course of exchange for Europol police officers at the FBI Academy, in the United States, taught by Aloisius Dupree, the head of the investigation unit. One of the tests consists of studying a real case of a serial murderer called “the composer”, who always acts during great natural disasters attacking entire families and following an almost liturgical staging. Amaia will unexpectedly become part of the investigation team that will take them to New Orleans, on the eve of Katrina, the worst hurricane in its history, to try to get ahead of the murderer. But a call from her aunt Engrasi from Elizondo will awaken in Amaia ghosts of her childhood, confronting her again with fear and the memories that give her an extraordinary knowledge of the north face of the heart. This passage of the inspector Amaia Salazar by the FBI in New Orleans, had already been briefly revealed in ‘The invisible guardian’, the first film of the Baztán trilogy. Since the publication of ‘The invisible guardian’ in 2013, the novels of the ‘Baztán Trilogy’ have been translated into 36 languages. The book also tells when, at the age of 12, Amaia Salazar got lost in the Elizondo forest for 16 hours.
In addition, Dolores Redondo, won the Planeta Prize in 2016 with her novel ‘All this I will give you’ and, earlier this year, the author recovered her first novel, ‘Los privilegios del angel’.
At the moment there are no dates for the production nor has a possible director and cast been revealed, nor the, or the scriptwriters, who will move ‘The north face of the heart’ to the screen, although it is taken for granted that this adaptation will be carried out by a powerful international team, “one hundred percent Hollywood,” according to Dolores Redondo.
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