After the great success of The Crown on Netflix, the series will have its Spanish version. Will it manage to be a phenomenon like English fiction?
The Crown is one of Netflix’s biggest hits. The series was created by Peter Morgan and is responsible for portraying the life of Queen Elizabeth II over four seasons. After seeing the huge worldwide phenomenon that fiction became, which is working on its fifth season, it was confirmed that it will have its version in Spain with King Juan Carlos I. What will it be like?
According to the advance by El País, the director and screenwriter Javier Olivares He is already working on a biographical series dedicated to Juan Carlos I. The person in charge of production already had good experiences in this environment, because he was in projects such as Isabel, a book that revolves around a girl who was separated from her father and forced to live at court by her stepbrother King Enrique IV, and the show El Ministerio del Tiempo, which travels to moments in the history of Spain.
The Spanish version of the series
That said, Javier Olivares feels he can create a huge hit like The Crown. For his part, the co-director of The Mediapro Studio, Javier Pons, referred to King Juan Carlos I and highlighted: “The latest events surrounding his figure have contributed to an even more diverse and transversal interest than he had before, when he was only an institutional figure.”
While the Spanish version is just growing and forming, fans of The Crown are eager to see the fifth season on Netflix. According to information that emerged, production will begin in July 2021 in London and its premiere in 2022, but still without an exact official launch date. Likewise, the sixth season for 2023 was also announced.
It should be noted that in 2016, Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos confirmed that Peter Morgan’s original idea described six seasons of The Crown. “The idea is to do this for six decades, presumably six seasons, and make the whole show last eight to ten years,” Sarandos said, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Now the big question is, will the Spanish version also enrage the royal family as much as Netflix fiction does?