The director of programming for Latin America of the platform, Francisco “Paco” Ramosdelved into what is to come during an interview with the Deadline portal. The producer Matías Mosteirinof K&S Productions, for its part, said that the plan is to conclude the story in the second season.
“The second season will be very important,” says Ramos. “It will deepen many science fiction concepts that have just been pointed out in the first season, and will develop thoroughly”. Mosteirin takes up the thread: “We believe that we will close the story spectacularly, probably with eight more episodes.”
The creator and director, Bruno Stagnarowill return for the second season of the series that adapts the graphic novel of Héctor G. OesterheldIllustrated by Francisco Solano López first published in 1957.
Set in Buenos Aires, the Eternaluta narrates the events after a mysterious Nevada annihilate most of the population. Juan Salvo, played by Ricardo Darínand his friends embark on a struggle desperate for survival. Therefore, it is located in the field of realistic science fiction.
“We wanted people to feel that this could really happen in their own city,” Ramos explains before deepening how history develops. “The first episode has a tiny scale; it only takes place in the house. Then, in the second episode, the scale is extended to the building, and in the third, it expands again: the neighborhood. For the fourth episode, it covers the entire city.”
K & s reached an agreement with the heirs of the author Oesterheld in the early 2000s. It was originally going to be a film, but Netflix was involved in 2018 and adopted a different form. “Back to the episodic structure was the best in terms of narrative and fidelity to the essence of the original story”Mosteirin states.
The visual effects piece involved collaboration with various international partners: DNEG in London, Redefine in Barcelona, Scanline in Los Angeles, Planet X in the Netherlands and ILP in Stockholm. The producers wanted to integrate the work of visual effects so that the director could develop his vision of intellectual property and his way of working.
“We didn’t want to work with a traditional visual effects system,” Mosteirin explains. “Bruno is the type of filmmaker who needs to maintain creativity in the set; that does not mean that he has to improvise, but needs to see the scene and how he flows and works, so he does not like having schemes in terms of planning.”
The legacy of El Eternalauta
For Mosteirin, doing the Eternauta was different. “It was a delicate and crucial event for us, for the team, for our company and for Argentina,” he explains. “We feel a great responsibility for how our industry and the production capacity of Argentina are projected.”
The challenges of creating the series included 2000 shots with visual effects. In the creative aspect, there was also pressure, since the original material enjoys great prestige in the country.
“It is not the first time we make a great production, but this was the first based on Argentine intellectual property,” says Mosteirin. “We could not fail because it is a property with a large fans base and it was a great treasure for us as artists”.
As people see the first season of El Eternalauta, the question is what will happen next and when. The first season took eight months to shoot and had a year of postproduction, so, with nothing officially scheduled for the second season, it will not arrive soon. For Mosteirin, meanwhile, the challenge is not the rhythm, but to maintain the atmosphere created by the team. The plan is a total of two seasons and about 14 episodes.
Source: Ambito
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