Avatar Entertainment Adapting Vicente Vallés Novel ‘La Caza Del Ejector’ As TV Series — SkimNews
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- Avatar Entertainment acquired rights to Spanish journalist Vicente Vallés' novel 'Hunting the Executioner' (La Caza del Ejecutor) to develop as an eight-part TV series.
- Screenwriters Borja Moreno and Pablo Riquelme Cuartero were attached to adapt the book, with Avatar founder Larry Robinson executive producing; no streamer or network is attached at this stage.
- The novel follows a handsome American CIA agent partnering with a beautiful Spanish secret agent to identify and neutralize a mysterious assassin killing Western spies worldwide.
- Vallés' previous novel 'Operation Kazan' was once set up at Universal Television but ultimately went into turnaround — Moreno and Riquelme Cuartero had been hired by Universal to adapt that earlier book.
- Robinson, speaking at MIPCOM in Cannes, called Vallés 'legendary' and described the project as 'a super premium action thriller series that could air around the world.'
- Avatar also recently signed rights agreements for Katy Hogan's 'Out of the Darkness,' Robert Enright's bestselling Sam Pope action book series, and Mary Dearborn's Ernest Hemingway biography.
- Vallés anchors the evening news on Spanish broadcaster Antena 3; his novel is published by Editorial Espasa, part of Grupo Planeta, and Moreno and Riquelme Cuartero are managed by Avatar.
Why it matters: The deal gives journalist Vicente Vallés a second shot at a U.S. TV adaptation after his previous novel was put into turnaround at Universal, and signals Avatar Entertainment's aggressive push into premium international action-thriller content. Without a network attached, the eight-episode spy package still has to clear a crowded marketplace for global thrillers.
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