Netflix, ‘Elite’ Star Ester Expósito and Locarno Winner Mar Coll Adapt ‘La Regenta,’ a ‘Fresh Female Perspective’ on a Big Spanish Classic (Exclusive)
Netflix, ‘Elite’ star Ester Expósito and Locarno Winner Mar Coll are adapting Clarín’s classic novel into a feature film which went into production Oct. 23, produced by María Zamora at Elastica Films (“Alcarràs” “Romería”).
Bombshell news – nothing was known of the movie until Friday’s announcement – “La Regenta” now weighs in as one of Spain’s biggest movies of 2027.
Lambasted in its day, Clarín’s “La Regenta” is now acclaimed as a masterpiece, second only to “The Quixote” in Spain, “one of the great novels of the 19th century, alongside ‘Madame Bovary’ and ‘Anna Karenina,’” English writer Julian Barnes said this week.
The current adaptation will be a new contemporary version that reinterprets the classic from a “fresh female perspective,” Netflix announced Friday.
“La Regenta” marks Netflix’s latest venture into revered big literary IP in the Spanish-speaking world after adaptations of Gabriel García Márquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude
