‘The Ministry Of Time’ Creator Javier Olivares Helming Series Adaptation Of Spanish Video Game Empire Novel From Blackbox Multimedia & EO Media

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EXCLUSIVE: London’s Blackbox Media and Latin American firm EO Media have paired up to develop a drama series based on a novel about the origins of famed Spanish video game company Dinamic Software.The pair has optioned Jesús Martínez del Vas’ La History de Dinamic from Madrid-based agency Scenic Rights and has signed Javier Olivares, know for creating TVE and Netflix time travel comedy series El Minister del Tiempo (The Ministry of Time), as showrunner.Del Vas wrote the novel in association with the Ruiz brothers, who as teenagers created a video game empire from their parents’ home in the early 1980s as Spanish tech companies began to boom internationally, before it crashed into bankruptcy.

Del Vas spent ten years researching his book and interviewing those involved with creating Dinamic.The 1980s became known as ‘the Golden Era of Spanish Software,’ with Dinamic’s rise occurred alongside Spain’s colourful ‘Movida Madrileña’ counter-cultural movement that began following the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975.The series, which Blackbox and EO describe as “greater than fiction,” will show how the Ruiz brothers opened the door for the era of video game and software innovation in the country.

It will explore brotherhood and rivalry, love and treason and is billed as “a combination of We Crashed meets The Wolf of Wall Street meets Silicon Valley meets the family melodrama of Luis Miguel La Series,” according to the producers.Olivares will work closely with co-writers Pablo Lara and Bruno Teixidor (The Cosmonaut: Transmedia Experience)to develop the show.

Lara worked as a writer on El Ministerio del Tiempo, while co-producers Blackbox and EO previously worked together to develop Luis Sepulveda’s novel Diary of a