Ex-Netflix Exec Juan Mayne Launches N&L Films (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comJohn Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Former Netflix exec Juan Mayne has hung up his own shingle, Madrid-based N&L Films, built with strong talent relationships, a strategic alliance with Exile Content Studio and a sure sense of market opportunities.
Exile Content Studio and N&L Films have struck a first-look development deal. Jeff Glaser, who oversaw Netflix production finance in Mexico City and Madrid, has joined N&L Films.
N&L’s first slate include a Mexican remake of “Miracle in Cell No. 7” and “Aristides: A Righteous Life,” the true-life account of a Portuguese diplomat who saved thousands from the Nazis in WWII, from Seanne Winslow.
N&L is also in conversations with Lluis Quilez and Fernando Navarro, the director and writer, respectively, of Netflix Top 10 non-English movie “Below Zero,” to develop a true-crime film based on a serial murderer dubbed “El Jack el Destripador de Almería.” Mayne is working on a sequel to Netflix’s “A pesar de todo” with young Spanish writing duo Ana Puentes and Javier Aguayo, and on sci-fi-thriller “Paradoxum,” from scribes Manolo Campos and “The Boat” writer Gonzalo Navas. “I want to make films that entertain, empower and inspire.
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