Paco Cabezas to Helm The Gypsy Bride

Paco Cabezas (Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, The Alienist: Angel of Darkness) is set to direct The Gypsy Bride, a TV series co-production from ViacomCBS International Studios (VIS) and the Banijay group company Diagonal TV.

Cabezas will lead the creative development of the scripted TV series, which is based on Carmen Mola’s novel La Novia Gitana. The Gypsy Bride will center on Elena Blanco, a homicide inspector obsessed with her work and with solving a personal past trauma. While self-medicating with alcohol, sex and music, she searches for the murderer of Susana Macaya, a gypsy soon-to-be bride killed in the same sadistic manner as her sister seven years before.

Cabezas said: “For years, I had been looking for a detective thriller project combining a heartfelt and from-the-streets plot with a bit of horror to apply everything I learned working on Hollywood, and The Gypsy Bride is just perfect for that.”