Movistar Plus+ films the serial adaptation of 'Terra Alta', a novel by Javier Cercas

Created by Eligio R. Montero and directed by Eduard Cortés, 'Terra Alta' adapts the novel of the same name by Javier Cercas into a series format to take viewers from Movistar Plus+ a police thriller whose starting point is the murder of two important businessmen in Catalonia.

High Earth, original Movistar Plus+ series created in collaboration with Secuoya Studios, has started a 14 week shoot which will take place in various locations in Catalonia (Barcelona and Terra Alta) and the Canary Islands. This fiction of six 50 minute episodes is the adaptation of the award-winning novel Planet Award 2019, a police thriller that tells the story of a Mossos d'Esquadra agent who risks everything for his principles and is haunted by the ghosts of the past.

The series, created by Eligio R. Montero (Buñuel in the turtle labyrinth), directed by Eduard Cortes (Tell me who I am) and written by Eligio R. Montero and Carmen López-Areal (The invisible girl), is executive produced by Ángela Agudo, Pere Roca and Peter Nadermann, as well as the photography of John Benet (The Invisibles, Moebius, Merlí). The cast is led by Miguel Bernardeau (Fox, Want), who is accompanied by other notable names such as Ivan Massagué, Marta Etura, Bea Segura, Goya Toledo, Pere Ponce, Pablo Derqui, Manel Barceló, Jordi Martínez or Francesc Orella.

This is the synopsis of High Earth, still without a release date: "Terra Alta, in Tarragona, is a place of wild beauty, where the scars of the Civil War still bleed. A quiet territory until the murder of Francisco and Rosa Adell, patriarchs of the richest and most powerful family in the place, shocks everyone. This event causes Melchor Marín, one of the agents in charge of the investigation, to relive its dark, complex and forgotten past."