Money Heist creator sets a pandemic-inspired Netflix drama set inside a luxury underground bunker

The Hollywood Reporter

Alex Pina has signed a new deal with Netflix that includes a high-concept series inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic. "The still-untitled series is set in a luxury underground bunker, where the country’s 1 percent retreat to escape catastrophe on the surface," according to The Hollywood Reporter. Pina says the inspiration for the article was from an October 2021 Spanish article about rich Spaniards purchasing bunkers in wake of the pandemic. “Some of the new shelters that were being built were luxury homes in the subsoil,” says Pina. “Up to 15 floors down, with exclusive services, such as cinema, pool, spa, gym and common gardens, with water and food to survive more than five years. An underground community for 75 people. And then we thought about what life would be like there. Social, family and romantic relationships, in an underground shelter to which they had hastily and exclusively fled.”