Film Factory Nabs Barcelona Attacks Thriller from Nostromo, Beta Fiction

Film Factory has picked up worldwide sales rights to “Operation Cronos,” a high-stakes thriller centering on the 2017 terrorist Barcelona attacks.   

Produced by Nostromo, the shingle behind Netflix hit “Through My Window,” and Beta Fiction, a producer on Spanish box office breakout “Undercover,” “Operation Cronos” will be directed by Fernando González Molina. Molina’s credits include big canvas movies such as “Palm Trees in the Snow” and “The Invisible Guardian,” both from Nostromo. 

“Operation Cronos” aims to plunge audiences into one of Europe’s darkest modern tragedies with unprecedented realism and intensity.

Unspooling in the immediate aftermath of the Aug. 17, 2017, attacks in Las Ramblas, with a tense countdown format, it chronicles the relentless efforts and quiet heroism of elite Spanish security forces as they race to track down the terrorists responsible.

The film stars four-time Goya Award winner Eduard Fernández (“Marco,” “The 47”). Genre specialist Alberto Marini (“Retribution,” “Sleep Tight”) penned the screenplay.

“’Operation Cronos’ is probably my most ambitious and complex film,” said González Molina. “The fact of relating real events and situations, so well-known by everyone, adds further complexity to the story, and requires an extra effort so as to be as faithful as possible to the facts.”