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Despite having received an excellent reception, both from critics and the public, the Prime Video series night sky – starring Oscar winner JK Simmons (flick) and Sissy Spacek (bring)– was canceled after only one season.
Two Argentines also worked in fiction: Julieta Zylberbergwith a key character in the plot, Giovanni Giuseppe Campanella as an executive producer, as well as directing two episodes, and the actress Rocio Hernandez.
Science fiction, suspense and fantasy
night sky combines science fiction, suspense and fantasy to tackle a story told through two narrative lines. The main one is that of Irene and Franklin -Spacek and Simmons-, a couple who keep a supernatural secret in their shed: a portal that allows them to travel on a planet.
JK Simmons and Sissy Spacek, two who know how much an Oscar weighs, star in “Night Sky”.
The other argumentative axis of the series is centered on Stella, the character of Zylberberg, and in his daughter Tony, played by the Argentine Rocío Hernández-, who keep the same secret as Irene and Franklin, but in the multicolored hills of Jujuy.
low audience
Just six weeks after its premiere on the broadcast network, Deadline reported that the series was canceled due to lack of public. night sky it failed to have a “significant impact on the public”, or at least an impact large enough to compensate the high costs associated with science fiction stories.
But a story of high concept aside, night sky it was really more of an intimate look at the way Franklin and Irene are forced to navigate their relationship once their secret has proven not to be that secret after all..
“Night Sky” has chosen the path of the dramatization of science fiction.
To infinity and beyond
As part of a promotional effort, night sky it was sent into space, making Prime Video the first broadcaster to deliver something directly into space and also marking the farthest distance from Earth that a show has ever been broadcast. Paradoxically, this marketing action was not adequately capitalized.
“An Argentine who spoke English like an Argentine”
A few days before his premiere, Julieta Zylberberg told him about her experience in the project. “It was all pretty weird. Amazon called me asking for an audition in English and I told them I didn’t speak well.
“But they didn’t care because they were looking for an Argentine who spoke English like an Argentine. I auditioned, submitted a video and they loved it. He was in the midst of a pandemic, “he recalls of his first contact.
“Jujuy was the last thing we shot, after returning from there (he spent three months in Chicago, USA), in October 2021. It was a much rushed experience than I’m used to. They are those projects that we generally don’t access here. It is like a sector that is very distant from ours. “
To record “Night Sky”, Julieta Zylberberg settled in the city of Chicago for three months.
-What was it like working with two Oscar-winning actors like JK Simmons and Sissy Spacek?
-I had a few scenes at the end. They were very loving. With everything that distances us, mostly because we have grown up with American audiovisual productions for a lifetime. So almost as if they were part of a fantasy, part of the imaginary but not of real life. But the truth is, they were both very generous, that’s great and good companions.
this is hollywood
Used to working in commercial and large production films and series like wild tales Y the bronze garden (HBO); and in popular Polka novels, Julieta explains that the big differences with Hollywood are on a level of magnitude.
“Basically, they have a much bigger industry. There were a lot of people working, all the roles were very divided, which gives a sense of distance because everything is someone. Everything was mega. Nobody knew anyone, because many things were filmed. Here I make a film and almost always, with at least six people, I’ve worked many times, “he said.
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Source: Clarin
