Antonio Gala’s passion project is getting a television adaptation…

The 92-year-old Spanish poet, playwright, novelist and writer’s erotic novel La Pasion Turca will be adaptated into a series by Buendia Estudios.

The popular novel was last adapted into a hit feature film in 1994 with the late Vicente Aranda directing and Andres Vicente Gomez of Lolafilms producing. It starred singer-actress Ana Belen in what is considered her most successful film.

The new six-episode series, which is set to air on Spanish free-to-air channel Antena 3 and streamer AtresPlayer Premium, will start shooting by the end of October in Turkey for seven weeks before moving to Madrid.

The cast will be made up of Spanish, Turkish and Italian talent.

The story revolves around Olivia, a Spanish Fine Arts teacher who wakes from a coma in an Istanbul hospital after having attempted suicide. There it is revealed, as she’s being interrogated by an inspector, that she has likely been involved in an art smuggling ring alongside her Turkish lover, Yaman. Flashbacks reveal the torrid affair with Yaman that made her abandon her life’s work in Spain. As the law tightens its noose around her, she agrees to go back to Yaman and inform the authorities of his movements.

The Atresmedia TV original is penned by Irene Rodríguez  and Esther Morales and will be directed by Iñaki Peñafiel.