Netflix has announced the start of filming of the adaptation of “The closeup of the cactus woman and the balloon man“, the first novel by Rayden.
The platform announced today that it has already started the filming of the adaptation of “The Approach of the Cactus Woman and the Balloon Man“, the first novel by David Martínez Álvarezbetter known as Raydenpublished in 2023 by Suma de Letras (Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial). The feature film will be directed by Kike Maíllowritten by Enric Navarro and produced by Saturday Timewith Toni Carrizosa and Araceli Pérez-Rastrilla as executive producers, and will be released soon.
On the other hand, The film will star Macarena García and Carlos Cuevasand complete the cast Eva Llorach, Santiago Korovsky either Silma Lopezamong others. The synopsis of the film is as follows: Sáhara (Macarena García) is a brilliant and ironic florist who has turned cynicism into her defense against a love that she believes is as ephemeral as a bouquet of flowers. Ciro (Carlos Cuevas), a bicycle delivery man, lives on the move convinced that loving someone means getting hurt. An explosive encounter in the streets of Madrid causes them to collide, and the city seems determined to cross their paths again. Between high-speed deliveries, misunderstandings and a borrowed identity that Ciro adopts almost by accident, both discover that even those who have learned to live on the defensive can suddenly find themselves faced with the possibility of stopping fleeing.
Along with this news, the artist has just announced his fourth novel “The blind man who described the world”, and which will be published next June 4 via Sum of Letters. The book follows a group of friends who have a tradition: arriving at the first concert on the second day of a festival in Lisbon. This time they have a problem: they have lost the transfer that took them. And the closest thing to a solution: Lincoln, a taxi driver who learned not to rush into the no. What its passengers don’t know is that this trip is not the first one that changes everything. The book is already on pre-sale at this same link.
It should be noted that Rayden He has published two more novels: “Votes against“, in 2024, and “The inner children’s workshop”, in 2025. In addition to his role as a writer, he also remains linked to the world of music with his new group Chiquita Movidawith whom he is currently immersed in the presentation tour of his first debut album “HIGH SHEATH” (25).
