Chilean Pablo Larraín turns a black comedy about Pinochet into a vampire version for Netflix

The famous Chilean director Pablo Larraín has started the production phase of To count, his next black comedy, which will feature a version of the dictator Augusto Pinochet as a 250-year-old vampire. As announced, the film will premiere next year from the Netflix streaming platform.

According to the Variety specialist site, Larraín is co-writer on the project with Guillermo Calderón, with whom he has already worked on the award-winning feature film Neruda (2016) and in The club (2015), a film for which he received the Grand Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival.

The political history of Chile is no stranger to the director, who has already introduced the theme in films such as post mortem (2010) and No (2012), although this time he turned to a dark comedy tone and not a traditional drama, to deepen the characters and an analysis of how both contemporary and global Chilean societies were built.

The cast

The main role will be that of Jaime Vadell (Three sad tigers), who will play a Pinochet who, after more than two centuries in this world that finds him as an elderly vampire, decides to die once and for all due to the ailments he suffers from his dishonor and family conflicts.

Vadell will be accompanied in the cast by Gloria Münchmeyer (the moon in the mirror), Paola Luschinger (The pack) and Alfredo Castro (Tony Manero), a regular at Larraín’s tapes.

Larrain spoke

Speaking to the international press, the director assured that he and his team are “very happy” with the project because “Netflix is ​​a space where the directors I admire very much have made films of great value”.

“Through black comedy we want to observe, understand and analyze the events that have taken place in Chile and around the world over the past 50 years. We have total confidence that we will do a good job and that this challenging but very inspiring shoot will undoubtedly be an adventure.” meaning, “she added.

Netflix’s opinion

For his part, the vice president of contents of Netflix Latin America, Francisco Ramos, assured: “We can finally work with Pablo as a director. Being part of his next film is really an honor for us and will certainly bring us enormous satisfaction”.

“Pablo is one of the most interesting and significant voices in Latin American cinema of the last two decades, his look at Chile and the region is fundamental to understanding our continent. I have no doubt that To count it will continue the path that Pablo has already mapped out “, he concluded.

From Lady Di to Pinochet

To count It will be the tenth feature film of Larraín’s career, which began in 2006 with Drain and that delivered last year spencerwith an intimate, dreamlike look at the unfortunate Lady Di during the collapse of her family relationship with British royalty and an acclaimed starring performance by American Kristen Stewart.

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