Buendía Estudios Takes Rights to New Clara Sánchez Novel

Buendía Estudios has acquired the rights to develop a project based on Clara Sánchez’s latest novel, the thriller Hell in Paradise.

Hell in Paradise follows Sonia, who is hired by the Saudi royal family to teach Spanish at the palace after serving as a waitress in Marbella. The dream job turns into a nightmare when she becomes involved in a troubling plot that ends with the disappearance of Amina, King Fadel’s second wife.

Sánchez said: “I wrote this novel as if I were watching week after week an exciting television series. I got so hooked on the characters, the things that happened to them that they never thought would happen to them, and the torturously luxurious settings, that I was so sad to finish it. Now I dream of lying on the couch and reliving it with new magic.”

Sonia Martínez, editorial director of series at Buendía Estudios and executive producer of the project, said: “Clara Sánchez’s novel has all the ingredients to become a fast-paced television drama: well-constructed, ordinary and close characters confronted by chance with extreme situations; a plot with elements that are familiar to us, very up-to-date; and a location in a time and place—20 years ago in the Costa del Sol—that is part of a collective idealization, a world of luxury, magnetic, in which we glimpse a murky reverse side.”

Hell in Paradise is a Buendía Estudios production currently under development.