Tornasol boards 'Yellow Mark'
La Fabrique plans Ciudad shoot
Gerardo Herrero’s Madrid-based Tornasol will co-produce the English-language “The Yellow M” with lead producer, France’s La Fabrique de Films.
The co-production continues a Tornasol-Fabrique production partnership after De La Iglesia’s recently-released “The Oxford Murders,” which grossed a standout $12.4 million in Spain.
Toplining Elijah Wood, John Hurt and Leonor Watling, “Murders” was lead produced by Tornasol and co-produced by La Fabrique.
“M” is being written by De la Iglesia and his longtime writing partner, Jorge Guerricaecheverria. It is currently at second draft screenplay stage, said La Fabrique’s co-prexy Verane Frediani.
Pic is designed as a France-Spain-Belgium-U.K. co-production, she added.
Producers look set to be La Fabrique’s co-prexies Franck Ribiere and Frediani and Tornasol’s Mariela Besuievsky.
For Frediani, the crux will be casting its two protagonists, Captain Francis Blake and science professor Philip Mortimer, who attempt to crack the crimes of a shadowy figure known as The Yellow Mark.
Although set in 1950s London, the goal is to shoot “M” at Alicante’s Ciudad de la Luz studios in Spain, with London exteriors, Frediani added.
Part of La Fabrique’s determined push into co-production, for Tornasol, which made its mark as a prolific producer of Spanish-language art films, involvement in “M” forms part of its disembarkment in high-bracket projects of international potential.
Tornasol is also co-producing Colin Farrell-starrer “Triage,” from Oscar-winning director Danis Tanovic, and Francis Ford Coppola’s “Tetro,” both Ciudad de la Luz shoots.
