Jean Labadie’s Le Pacte and sales agency Film Factory have joined Spanish pay giant Movistar Plus on the next film from Alberto Rodríguez (“Marshland”), which is shaping up fast with as one of the biggest packages from Spain this year at the Berlinale’s European Film Market.
Le Pacte will co-produce the thriller out of France and handle French distribution rights. Film Factory is launching international sales at Berlin. Movistar Plus, co-producing out of Spain with Kowalski Films and Feelgood Media, will bring the deepest pocket of any production powerhouse in Spain, backing what looks like a potentially big-budgeted movie.
Currently in pre-production, Rodríguez’s latest is scheduled for release in Spanish theaters via Buena Vista Intl. in 2025.
Rodríguez, whose “Marshland” scored 10 Spanish Academy Awards including best picture, has written the screenplay with his longterm co-scribe, Rafael Cobos.
In setting, tone and focus, the as yet to be titled movie looks closest to Rodriguez’s “Survival,” his acclaimed episode in series “Offworld,” his new movie turning on a man, an industrial diver, who begins to understand that his time has passed. The new feature talks about “the end of the capabilities of an almost amphibious man, who senses he’s not special, nor different, just someone in the crowd,” Rodríguez has said.
The film is set on the Andalusian coast, near Doñana, one of the largest natural reserves in Europe. It also plumbs the unknown world of industrial diving.
“The new script by Alberto Rodríguez and Rafael Cobos is one of the best I’ve read in recent years,” said Labadie. “Le Pacte is very happy and proud to team again with the director of ‘Marshland.’”
