Avatar Entertainment Adapting Vicente Vallés Novel ‘La Caza Del Ejector’ As TV Series
Avatar Entertainment has secured the rights to Vicente Vallés’ novel *Hunting the Executioner* and is developing it as an eight-part television series. The project has no broadcaster or streaming service attached yet, but it brings a Spanish journalist’s thriller to international screen development.
The story follows an American CIA agent and a Spanish secret agent travelling the world to identify and stop an assassin targeting Western spies. Screenwriters Borja Moreno and Pablo Riquelme Cuartero are adapting the novel, with Avatar founder Larry Robinson executive producing. Vallés is an Antena 3 evening news presenter; his earlier novel, *Operation Kazan*, was previously set up at Universal Television before being put into turnaround.
- Avatar has acquired rights to adapt Vallés’ novel.
- The planned series will have eight episodes.
- No network or streaming service is attached.
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Vicente Vallés is a Spanish journalist and presenter of Antena 3’s evening news. He also writes thrillers, including Hunting the Executioner, a novel about intelligence agents pursuing an assassin who targets Western spies.
Avatar Entertainment is a production company developing the book for television. Its planned series brings together a CIA agent from the United States and a Spanish secret agent; screenwriters Borja Moreno and Pablo Riquelme Cuartero are working on the adaptation.
The project is at the development stage, with no broadcaster or streaming service attached. Vallés’s earlier novel, Operation Kazan, was also developed for television, at Universal Television, but that project was later put into turnaround.