The first big premiere series of the year on Netflix is filmed in Malaga.

It's the first major production of the year for Netflix. With permission from the last episode of 'Stranger Things', which arrived just as the grapes were being digested. The platform has set out to capitalize on the profitability among the general public of miniseries - productions halfway between a feature film and a series - for their ability to be binged in one sitting, thus favoring this type of format. Such is the case with 'Agatha Christie: The Seven Dials', which will arrive on the streaming service on January 15 with the intention of its three episodes quickly reaching number 1. The adaptation has everything going for it: the appealing brand of the legendary queen of mystery, an entertaining plot, and a story that, of course, plays with a murder that takes the protagonists from the British countryside to Ronda, where the intrigue of this thriller also unfolds.

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Without giving away spoilers, the iconic locations of the capital of the Serranía are already featured in the prologue of this eagerly awaited miniseries that takes Ronda back to the 1920s to set the stage for the upcoming mystery. Among the historical settings are the Fuente de los Ocho Caños, the iconic Puente Nuevo, the Palacio del Rey Moro, the Arco de Felipe V, the Parque de la Alameda del Tajo, and particularly, the bullring of the Real Maestranza de Caballería, which is the grand stage where the action unfolds and a mystery that arose during the filming is revealed. Thus, during the filming in September 2024, the production team sought a double for a well-known actor who, paradoxically, does not appear in the credits (we keep the secret, although in this link you can see the information about that filming).

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'The Seven Dials' joins the revival of Agatha Christie's works thanks to the Netflix movie saga 'Knives Out', whose latest installment, 'Out of the Dead', premiered just a month ago on the platform. Instead of adapting to current times like in this last franchise, the miniseries opts for a period setting by traveling to 1925 with the story of a masquerade ball at a luxurious country mansion attended by the crème de la crème of British politics, industry, and aristocracy. Aiming to play a prank on one of the attendees, some friends use 8 alarm clocks to surprise a colleague, who is found dead. A death that seems unnatural since one of the clocks has disappeared, while the rest show different times.

The iconic locations of Ronda already appear in the prologue of this eagerly awaited miniseries that takes the city back to the 1920s

In contrast to her great characters Hercules Poirot and Miss Marple, Agatha Christie in this novel chose a young detective, Lady Eileen 'Bundle' Brent, as the sleuth of an intriguing story that already marked what would be her later and successful production of mystery hits, with characters like the down-and-out aristocrats and the veteran policeman. The shrewd and restless investigator must unravel a plot that will become more complicated and extend beyond the country mansion to a secret society.

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The central character of the detective is played by British actress Mia McKenna-Bruce ('How To Have Sex'), while the rest of the cast includes star Helena Bonham Carter (muse of Tim Burton in 'Sweeney Todd' and 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'), Corey Mylchreest ('Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story'), Ed Bluemel ('Killing Eve' and 'Sex Education'), Nabhaan Rizwan (who already filmed another Netflix superproduction in Malaga, ultimately canceled, 'Kaos') and Martin Freeman, a familiar face for his character of Agent Everett K. Ross in Marvel comic adaptations like 'Captain America: Civil War' and 'Black Panther'.

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The latter plays Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard in 'Agatha Christie: The Seven Dials' and represents the counterpoint of the investigation against the tireless Lady Brent. "The production did an incredible job adapting the novel to the 1920s, truly magical," confesses Martin Freeman, who participated in the filming in Malaga and assures that he joined this miniseries after reading the script by Chris Chibnall ('Doctor Who' and creator of Broadchurch'), which mixes intrigue and plot twists, with touches of humor.

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"It's fun and captures the spirit of Agatha Christie's original writing," Martin Freeman anticipates about this production by Imaginary Friends and Agatha Christie Limited for Netflix. Leading the filming service in Ronda for this new international series was Palma Pictures, one of the major companies in our country specializing in the filming of foreign and Hollywood series and movies. Notably, the service production company based in Mallorca was the one that brought another famous Netflix franchise, 'The Crown', to Malaga, finding various locations in the capital and province to film scenes set in Australia, while also being responsible for the recent British mafia drama premiered on Movistar 'The City Masters', filmed on the Costa del Sol and Antequera.