NETFLIX RENEWED DRAMA SERIES MONEY HEIST FOR A FIFTH AND FINAL SEASON
“THE HEIST COMES TO AN END”
The hit series Money Heist is coming to an end with a fifth and final season.
Netflix has renewed the blockbuster Spanish drama for a fifth and final run, where the heist will come to an end. The fourth season, which consisted of eight episodes, was launched in April.
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Money Heist fans will get to enjoy one last instalment of the drama and executive producer and showrunner Álex Pina said the series will go out with a bang, with ‘the most epic part of all the parts we’ve shot’.
Pina said: “We’ve spent almost a year thinking about how to break up the band. How to put the Professor on the ropes. How to get into situations that are irreversible for many characters. The result is the fifth part of La Casa de Papel (Money Heist). The war reaches its most extreme and savage levels, but it is also the most epic and exciting season.”
Speaking in a an interview with Entertainment Weekly, he continued: “We are moving from a chess game – a mere intellectual strategy – to a war strategy: attack and contention.”
“We always try that our opponents be charismatic, intelligent, shiny. In this case, in pure war film genre, we also look for characters whose intelligence can measure up against The Professor’s.”
“Adrenaline is within Money Heist’s DNA. Every thirty seconds things take place and disrupt the characters, a turn of the screw to the action. The adrenaline mixed with feelings arising from absolutely complex, magnetic, unforeseeable characters will continue until the end of the heist to the Bank of Spain.”
“However, the gang will now be pushed into irreversible situations, into a wild war: it is the most epic part of all the parts we’ve shot.”
Money Heist has proven to be a massive hit for the streaming entertainment company and is the most popular non-English series to date, with the fourth season watched by 65 million different Netflix accounts within four weeks of its release in April 2020.
Pina, who also created the Netflix crime drama series White Lines – said he thinks the overall success of Money Heist because it covers a universal and diverse range of themes.
He also said: “It is action and feeling, it is black comedy and drama, romance and pathos.”
But while it may be the last time we see Money Heist, the showrunner has previously stated there are ‘many possibilities for some spin-offs.’
Speaking in an interview with The Oprah Magazine, Pina said: “We do have many possibilities for some spin-offs, yes, and I think that’s thanks to the strong and powerful identities of the characters.”
“We’ve always looked for characters to have a very complex, layered design. So I think almost every character of Money Heist has a duality that we would like to see in a spin-off. We could watch any of them in other contexts.”
Patrick Criado (La Gran Familia Española) and Miguel Ángel Silvestre (Sense 8) are set to join the Money Heist cast.
Money Heist stars Úrsula Coberó (Tokyo), Álvaro Morte (The Professor), Pedro Alonso (Berlin), Itziar Ituño (Lisbon), Miguel Herrán (Rio), Jaime Lorente (Denver), Esther Acebo (Stockholm), Enrique Arce (Arturo), Darko Peric (Helsinki), Hovik Keuchkerian (Bogotá), Luka Peros (Marseille), Belén Cuesta (Manila), Rodrigo de la Serna (Palermo), Najwa Nimri (Inspector Sierra), Fernando Cayo (Coronel Tamayo) and José Manuel Poga (Gandía).
The fifth and final season of Money Heist will consist of 10 episodes and start production in Spain on the 3rd of August 2020.
