Days before the delivery of the Oscars, in Hollywood, it was leaked to the entourage of the delegation of Argentina, 1985 a voice. He indicated it himself Ricardo Darin I was going to act The Eternaut For Netflixin what would become the streaming giant’s largest production in terms of production here in Argentina.
The project is several years old. Netflix has unveiled the news of the series The Eternaut by February 2020. At that time, it was learned that the production based on the graphic novel by Héctor Germán Oesterheld would have the consultancy of Oesterheld, Martín Oesterheld.
The coronavirus pandemic has temporarily stopped everything.
And the director will be Bruno Stagnaro, who made his feature film debut co-directing with Israel Adrián Caetano faso beer pizzathe film that will mark the beginning, in 1998, of the so-called New Argentine cinema, then moves on to serial direction (squats, A rooster for Aesculapius) and has been behind the project for nearly three years.
consulted by clarion, Ricardo Darín was strong, precise and concise. He said: “Nothing confirmed yet. Until then I can’t talk”, which speaks of negotiation, but that the contract, we assume, would not be signed yet.
Like Darín, together with his son “Chino” Darín and Federico Posternak (who accompanied Ricardo on the trip to Los Angeles) he has his own production company, Kenya Films, which co-produced Argentina, 1985it could be the shell interpreter’s job The secret in their eyes Don’t limit yourself to acting.
One of the companies involved in the matter is K&S, the production company formed by Hugo Sigman and Oscar Kramer, for which Darín has already starred in several successful titles, from wild talesby Damian Szifron, a The range (by Santiago Miter) e Giles’ Odysseyby Sebastián Borensztein, also produced by Kenya.
The Eternaut is one of twelve audiovisual projects recently selected by the Buenos Aires Film Commission (BAFC), belonging to the Impulso Cultural platform of the City’s Ministry of Culture, to benefit from a 20 percent return on expenses for audiovisual productions made with international investment.
And at the time flirting -and more- with directing a version of The Eternaut It was Lucrecia Martel.
What does “L’Eternauta” say?
The Eternaut focuses on an invasion of supernatural beings, who take over the world in a dystopian future -the action starts in 1959 and ends in 1963-. Oesterheld wrote it, Francisco Solano López drew it and it was published in Weekly zero hourfrom 1957 to 1959.
And it is Oesterheld himself who plays himself, as a cartoonist, listening to the story of Juan Salvo (the character who, if he accepted, would play Ricardo Darín), a man who suddenly and out of nowhere materializes. At home.
Only that he says that one day, while he was at home in Vicente López with his family (wife and daughter) and three friends with whom he was playing tricks, they heard strange news on the radio. There has been a nuclear explosion in the Pacific Ocean. Electricity is cut off. They look out and the road is completely covered in some kind of luminescent snow. The silence is complete.
What else do you see? Dead bodies and cars that collided, and the neighbors across the street, who open a window to see what was going on, and watch them die. They sense that this snowfall is the reason for his death.
A friend of Salvo -Favalli, a physics teacher- thinks about making an insulating suit that protects from contact with the snow.
this is how it is born The Eternautwhich will tell the battles with the “cascarudos” in the middle of General Paz Avenue (the first clash), and there will also be internal clashes in the field of River Plate, where the Army has its base of operations.
So far, the only production based on the graphic novel that has been produced has been the miniseries German, last cartoons (2013), where Miguel Ángel Solá is the one who plays Oesterheld. It was co-directed by Cristian Bernard, Flavio Nardini (da 76-89-03) and Federico Sosa. With Paula Reca as Florencia and Claudio Rissi as Santos, it is available on Cont.ar.
Source: Clarin
