Amid rumors, the actor confirmed that he is in negotiations with the streaming platform. The series will be directed by Bruno Stagnaro.
After the awards season journey with Argentina, 1985, Ricardo Darín is close to joining one of the most anticipated projects by Argentines. The actor is in negotiations to star in the series El Eternauta on Netflix.
The adaptation, which has been attempted for decades, is being done by Bruno Stagnaro (Pizza, Birra Faso, Okupas, A Rooster for Aesculapius). During Darín’s visit to Los Angeles, in the entourage the rumor began to spread that Darín was close to the main role of the graphic novel adaptation of Hector German Oesterheld.
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In view of these rumours, which They also indicate that production could start this year.the actor was consulted to find out if it was true that he would join the series. “Nothing confirmed yet. I can’t speak until then,” Darín assured Clarín.
This would imply that The star is in negotiations but has not yet signed a contract. A not minor detail is that the series will be produced by Netflix and K&S by Hugo Sigman and Oscar Kramer, with whom Darín has already worked on Wild TalesThe mountain range and The odyssey of the giles.
In February 2020, Netflix confirmed that they would be in charge of producing the El Eternauta series and that Stagnaro would carry out the script and direction. They also announced that Martín Oesterheld, Héctor’s grandson, would be a consultant on the series.
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During the pandemic, The director confirmed that he was working on the script but declined to give any further information.No on production. If materialized, El Eternauta would become the largest production locally for the streaming platform.
decades ago different filmmakers tried to adapt the work of Oesterheld and Solano López but they did not succeed. Evenin 2008 the project fell into the hands of Lucrecia Martel but it could not come to fruition either.
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