Avatar Entertainment Acquires Rights to Vicente Valles Novel 'Hunting the Executioner'
Avatar Entertainment has acquired Vicente Valles' novel 'Hunting the Executioner' and attached Borja Moreno and Pablo Riquelme Cuartero to adapt it into an eight-part TV series.
Avatar Entertainment has acquired the rights to Vicente Valles' novel Hunting the Executioner (La Caza del Ejecutor), the company confirmed. Screenwriters Borja Moreno and Pablo Riquelme Cuartero have been attached to adapt the novel into an eight-part television series.
Avatar founder Larry Robinson is executive producing the project. No streamer or network has been attached to the series at this stage.
Robinson discussed the project with Deadline in Cannes at MIPCOM, according to the outlet.
Valles is a veteran newscaster who anchors the evening news on Spanish broadcaster Antena 3. The novel was published by Editorial Espasa, part of Grupo Planeta.
Prior adaptations
In October 2025, Valles' previous novel Operation Kazan was set up at Universal Television, with Moreno and Cuartero hired for the adaptation. That project was ultimately put into turnaround. In October 2025, Avatar also signed agreements for the rights to the Katy Hogan novel Out of the Darkness, Robert Enright's Sam Pope action book series, and Mary Dearborn's biography of Ernest Hemingway for television adaptations.
Quick answers
What is 'Hunting the Executioner' about?
The given facts do not include plot details for the novel.
Where will the series air?
No streamer or network is attached to the project yet.
Who is adapting the novel?
Borja Moreno and Pablo Riquelme Cuartero have been attached to write the eight-part adaptation.