“Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,” “The Impossible” and “The Orphanage” director J. A. Bayona is set to tackle a new Netflix feature based on a real-life disaster.
“Society of the Snow” will be a Spanish-language film about Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. In 1972 it was chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile and catastrophically crashed on a glacier in the heart of the Andes. Only 29 of the 45 passengers survived the crash and were forced to resort to extreme measures – including cannibalism – to stay alive.
The story was previously adapted to the big screen back in 1993 as the second directorial effort of super-producer Frank Marshall (“Arachnophobia,” “Congo,” “Eight Below”) and starring Ethan Hawke. That film received mixed reviews, criticised for downplaying the sociological elements and playing up the story’s action elements.
Bayona, Bernat Vilaplana, Jaime Marques and Nicolas Casariego have written the new version based on the novel by Pablo Vierci. The ensemble cast includes genuine Uruguayan and Argentine actors with Enzo Vogrincic Roldan, Matias Recalt, Agustin Pardella, Tomas Wolf, Diego Ariel Vegezzi, Esteban Kukuriczka, Francisco Romero, Rafael Federman, Felipe González Otaño, Agustin Della Corte, Valentino Alonso, Simón Hempe, Fernando Contigiani Garcia, Benjamin Segura and Jeronimo Bosia.
Filming will take place in the Sierra Nevada (Andalucia, Spain), in Montevideo (Uruguay) and in various locations in the Andes (Chile, Argentina), including where the actual events took place in El Valle de las Lagrimas.
Source: THR
