Netflix released this Thursday the first preview of The Eternaut, the series based on the comic strip created by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Solano López, which will hit screens in 2025. The plot will follow Juan Salvo, played by Ricardo Darín, and a group of survivors who face an alien invasion.
Created and directed by Bruno Stagnaro, who worked on the script together with Ariel Staltari, It is produced by K&S Films. In addition to starring Darín, it also features the participation of Carla Peterson, Cesar Troncoso, Andrea Pietra and other well-known Argentine actors.
The series will consist of six episodes and will recreate the comic book novel. Behind the creative consultancy is Martin M. Oesterheldgrandson of the author. The possibility that Netflix produce for its platform the comic strip released in 1957 had to adjust to the requirements of the heirs of Oesterheld and by the cartoonist Francisco Solano López. Mainly, that it was filmed in Buenos Aires -where the story takes place- and that it was spoken in Spanish.
Netflix will premiere the El Eternauta series in 2025
The Eternaut will arrive on the platform in 2025, just two years after its production was publicly confirmed. The story follows Salvo (Darín) and a group of survivors who face a alien invasion, amidst the extreme conditions generated by a deadly snowfall caused by said invasion, where the most terrifying thing are the apparently invisible enemies, who for much of the plot are only visible because of the chaos they leave behind.
The comic strip It was originally published in installments beginning in 1957 in the magazine “Weekly Zero Hour”until 1959. Its date of appearance, September 4, was established as the Comic Strip DayIn the 1950s, before the spread of television, comics were a genuine mass phenomenon, and appeared in newspapers as well as in magazines entirely dedicated to the genre.
All three versions of the iconic comic strip were written during dictatorships. The first was published in 1957, during the de facto government of Pedro Aramburu. The second, with Alberto Brecciain 1969 (Juan Carlos Ongania), and a second part, in 1976 (Jorge Videla), which makes it inevitable to connect references between the invaders and the methods of the dictatorships.
Its author, Hector German Oesterheld, He was kidnapped on April 27, 1977 by a task force in La Plata, and is believed to have been murdered the following year. His four daughters had already been kidnapped and murdered: Diana (24), Beatriz (19), Estela (25) and Marina (18).Two of them were pregnant.
The widow, Elsa Sanchezdied in June 2015, at the age of 90. Before that, she had raised Martinthe grandson who was handed over to him by the repressive forces after they murdered his parents.
The story is contemporary with an era prone to imagining extraterrestrial invasions and to living with the very real nuclear threat, expressed in the tensions between United States and the Soviet Unionin the context of the Cold War. It is enough to remember the famous CBS radio broadcast of 1938, by Orson Wellesabout an alleged alien invasion, which unleashed a wave of madness throughout the United States.
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