8 THINGS YOU PROBABLY DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT LA CASA DE PAPEL / MONEY HEIST

Money Heist/La Casa De Papel is really a worldwide wonder.
Here are a few things you most likely didn't think about the hit Spanish series.

CONTENTS 

The name of the show
City names
Narrators
International hit
Real life locations
Printing money

Recycled sets

Different masks

1) THE NAME OF THE SHOW
Internationally the show is known as 'Money Heist'. But originally it was called 'Los Desahuciados' which in Spanish means 'The Hopeless'. Later on, it was changed to 'The Paper House' which is the show’s Spanish name 'La Casa De Papel'.

2) CITY NAMES
Moscow was originally Chernobyl.
Nairobi was originally Cameroon.
Oslo was originally Valencia.
Yet Chernobyl, Cameroon, Valencia still appeared in the show as plan codenames. 


3) NARRATORS
According to the creators, The Professor was meant to be the original narrator of the show. However, they found the first-person narration of his own plan too narcissistic. They tried to give the role to Moscow for a more cheerful and down to earth personality but settled on Tokyo as they liked her feminine perspective in a cold and masculine setting.

4) INTERNATIONAL HIT
The show reached multiple milestones, including:

•  Over 34 million viewers

• 3^rd Most Popular Show on IMDB

• Most Popular Spanish Language Series on IMD

5) REAL LIFE LOCATIONS

Even though Part 1 and 2 were set in The Royal Mint of Spain, production used another shooting location. The Spanish National Reserve Council building is used as a stand-in for the Royal Mint of Spain, the two locations only being 35 minutes away from each other in Madrid.

Part 3 and 4 were also shot at stand-in locations, using a government complex known as New Ministries to stand-in as the Bank of Spain.

6) PRINTING MONEY
For realistic banknotes, the show used the printing presses of the Spanish newspaper ‘ABC’. As a result, all banknotes that appear on the show are printed on the newspaper and the show was able to print up to 2600 individual banknotes.

7) RECYCLED SETS
The set used to portray the Royal Mint's Interior was also used for the Spanish show 'Vis A Vis', a series set in a Spanish women's prison. Both shows share creator Alex Pina. Both shows also share actresses such as Alba Flores (Nairobi) and Najwa Nimri (Alicia).

8) DIFFERENT MASKS
According to showrunner Javier Gomez Santander, the Dali masks used weren’t the only choice. They were seriously considering using the image of Don Quijote. Riffing off of the themes of madness, genius, and romanticism. They settled on Dali because they found it more striking.

Conclusion: Since dropping its fourth season on April 3, La Casa de Papel (known in the States as Money Heist) has become the most in-demand title in the world this week. From April 3 to 5, La Casa de Papel was 31.75 times more in demand than the average series globally, beating out such perennially popular series as Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Westworld, according to Parrot Analytics.

     Money Heist is a wild ride. The series first began with eight thieves taking hostages and locking themselves in the Royal Mint of Spain as a criminal mastermind manipulates the police to carry out his plan. From there, complexity abounds. We could bridge the gap from the show’s start to its recently released fourth season, but the rescheduled Olympics is coming up in 2021, and we don’t want to miss that.

     

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