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Spain's Mediapro Studio has signed a new development deal with best-selling genre author Lorenzo Silva to oversee scripted fiction based on his novels.

First up in the new pact is a series based on Silva's latest book, Si Esto es Una Mujer (If This Is a Woman) written in collaboration with Noemi Trujillo, and another adapting two of his nine popular novels featuring the Civil Guard duo Ruben Bevilacqua and Virginia Chamorro.

The award-winning novelist will supervise the script team for the new projects from Mediapro's production outfit Globomedia. Trujillo will collaborate on Woman, about a cold case in ...

Based on a novel by Lorenzo Silva, The Mist and the Maiden (La niebla y la doncella) investigates the mystery of a young man whose corpse is found in a forest. As the synopsis explains, the forest is located "on the island of La Gomera. The case closes with the accusation to a local politician who is exonerated in the later judgment. Three years later, Sergeant Bevilaqua and his assistant, Corporal Chamorro, are sent to the island to revive the investigation. Corporal Anglada accompanies them, the last one who saw the young man alive." Quim Gutiérrez stars as Sergeant Bevilaqua, with Aura Garrido as Corporal Chamorror and Verónica Echegui as Corporal Anglada. Andrés M. Koppel wrote the screenplay and directed. Watch the intriguing teaser below,...

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