Julio Medem, one of Spain’s preeminent film directors (“Vacas,” “Sex and Lucia,” “Ma Ma”), is dipping his toe into high-profile TV fiction arena with Miami-set Basque ball game, crime series “Jai-Alai.”
The in-development project, whose first season will consist of 10 episodes, has also attached to direct award-winning Mexican filmmakers David Pablos (“Las elegidas”) and Gabriel Ripstein (“600 Miles”).
Based on an original idea by Medem and Mexican producer Eva Ruiz de Chávez, the series will take place over three decades. From the ’70s, when the Basque ball became one of the most profitable sports in the U.S. and the Miami Jai Alai, an excellent way to launder money from trafficking cocaine; its ’80s decline and its end in the ’90s.
With “The Godfather” as one of its major sources of inspiration, “Jai-Alai” will tell the story of Xalba, the patriarch of a pelotari dynasty who transfers control of his crime empire to Ategi, his reluctant
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The in-development project, whose first season will consist of 10 episodes, has also attached to direct award-winning Mexican filmmakers David Pablos (“Las elegidas”) and Gabriel Ripstein (“600 Miles”).
Based on an original idea by Medem and Mexican producer Eva Ruiz de Chávez, the series will take place over three decades. From the ’70s, when the Basque ball became one of the most profitable sports in the U.S. and the Miami Jai Alai, an excellent way to launder money from trafficking cocaine; its ’80s decline and its end in the ’90s.
With “The Godfather” as one of its major sources of inspiration, “Jai-Alai” will tell the story of Xalba, the patriarch of a pelotari dynasty who transfers control of his crime empire to Ategi, his reluctant
