HBO Max develops mountain mystery drama set in remote Pyrenean hamlet of Tor
HBO Max is developing a Spanish drama freely inspired by tragic, unresolved events in Tor, a remote mountain hamlet high in the Pyrenees.
The project is in development, meaning writers are now working on it and HBO Max has yet to order it to series. Nothing has been filmed yet. Variety reported the development on 30 September.
The series was created by Fran Araújo and Eduard Sola, meaning they devised the story and are writing it for the screen. Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi will executive produce, meaning they will oversee the show creatively and financially. The drama is set up at Suma Content, the production company run by Calvo and Ambrossi.
Tor is tiny and isolated. HBO Max describes the project as a blend of mystery, suspense and human drama. Mystery drives the questions, suspense holds the tension and human drama keeps the focus on the people caught up in it. The streamer said the story revisits the events and legends around a case that continues to captivate Spain.
Araújo won a screenplay Goya, Spain's top film award, for One Year, One Night. He also co-wrote the Movistar Plus+ crime series Hierro and Rapa, two long-running detective stories set in the Canary Islands and Galicia. Sola co-created Querer, which won the top prize at Series Mania 2025, the international television festival in France. He also wrote Ravalear: Not for Sale, HBO Max's 2026 series that was selected for the Berlinale, the Berlin film festival.
The development sits with Guillermo Farré, head of local original production at HBO Max in Spain. He oversees Spanish originals for the streamer, from early development to the finished show.
What makes this stand out is the pairing at the centre. Araújo brings feature-film and crime-series experience, while Sola brings recent festival recognition and a previous HBO Max credit. Calvo and Ambrossi bring their own company as a producing home.
For viewers, this means waiting. A story in development must finish scripts and earn a full series order before casting, filming and scheduling can follow. If it moves forward, a crew of more than a hundred people would be needed to bring a mountain story of this scale to the screen.
