Murky blue brown images bringing to mind a Lorca play developed for todays premium TV audience fill the screen in the trailer for  The Gypsy Bride   from  Penny Dreadful director Paco Cabezas which world premiered at the San Sebastián Film Festival.





The fiction is produced by ViacomCBS International Studios  VIS with the participation of Atresmedia Televisión, and in collaboration with Diagonal TV.As well as presenting the first season of the series at the Spanish speaking worlds highest profile festival Cabezas the shows creator and director had something else to celebrate on Wednesday. The show which premieres on Sept. 25 on Atresplayer Premium the ebullient OTT service of broadcast network Atresmedia has renewed  The Gypsy Bride  La Novia Gitana  for a second season. 


The Seville born director sat down with Variety to talk about creating he eight part Season 1 of  The Gypsy Bride  shot inside the Madrid gypsy community Spains largest and how he went from busking on the Madrid subway to meetings with Steven Spielberg after a near fatal car crash .Its a very violent show   he said, speaking about  The Gypsy Bride.  But at the same time its very beautiful. Its rooted in gypsy culture and I use real gypsy actors. We feature different flamenco artists in each episode. Lorca is a good comparison because flamenco is also rooted in tragedy. As for the shows look we used a blue brown palette to create the look with only the blood and white wedding dress in other colors.


A thriller The Gypsy Bride is set in a gypsy community on Madrid’s outskirts where homicide inspector Elena Blanco Nerea Barros Marshland is called in to investigate a murder of a young gypsy woman just before her wedding. The first season is an adaptation of  La Novia the first book in  La Novia Gitana  a crime trilogy written by Carmen Mola  a pseudonym for a writing trío formed by Jorge Díaz  Agustín Martínez and Antonio Mercero.  150,000 copies of the book sold in 10 countries when the book was released in 2018.