The Mediapro Studio and 3Cat film 'El mal', an eight-episode thriller based on real events

Marta Pahissa directs 'El mal (Quiet)', an eight-episode thriller produced by The Mediapro Studio in co-production with 3Cat (CCMA) whose filming takes place in different locations in Barcelona.

Lluís Arcarazo is the creator of this fiction (set in the Barcelona of confinement and based on a true story) that narrates the investigation to find a serial killer who has chosen as his victims “the weakest link in society”: the homeless. In his own words: "The series is a story that has many layers. It is about a police investigation, but it goes far beyond what goes through the mind of a psychopath. The combination of being able to show a Barcelona, ​​that of confinement, as we have never seen before with an element as extreme as a murderer of people who cannot be confined is the great attraction of 'El Mal.' For Marta Pahissa, director of the eight episodes that make up the story, "the great challenge of the series is to portray an empty, silent and a little apocalyptic Barcelona and at the same time it is also the strong point of the series."

the evil, which will premiere in TV3 and the platform 3Cat, to later proceed to the international sale of the project, is created and written by Lluís Arcarazo, who is the main screenwriter of all the episodes of the series, with the collaboration of screenwriters Guillermo Cisneros and María Jaen. Arcarazo has previously worked with The Mediapro Studio in the movie Salvador (Puig Antich) and in the series night i day, directed by Oriol Paulo, which was a success in territories such as Australia, Italy, Brazil, the United States, Sweden and the United Kingdom, among others.

He argument of the evil parte de una historia real. A finales de abril de 2020, en pleno confinamiento por la COVID-19, las autoridades detuvieron a un hombre acusado de asesinar uno tras otro a varios indigentes en las calles de Barcelona. Siempre siguiendo los mismos patrones: siempre mientras dormían y siempre con una brutalidad extrema. Con este planteamiento, y en ese contexto de ciudad vacía y confinada, Arcarazo desarrolla la idea de la serie, con el doble sentido tanto de maldad como de un virus que va infectando a sus víctimas.

David Verdaguer (ganador de dos premios Goya por Saben Aquell y Verano 1993) y Ángela Cervantes (dos veces nominada a los premios Goya por La Maternal y Chavalas), son los protagonistas de esta serie, cuyo rodaje está teniendo lugar estos días en distintas localizaciones de la Ciudad Condal. En el reparto destacan también Alex Brendemull (Nominado al Goya por Creature) y Melina Matthews (Mano de Hierro) así como los jóvenes Roger Guitart y Victoria Kantch. Marta Pahissa es la directora de todos los episodios.