J. A. Bayona, whose credits also include The Impossible and The Orphanage. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.Spanish-language disaster movie directed by, Society of the SnowNetflix
Based on the book La sociedad de la nievePablo Vierci directed the film. The movie is set in 1972 and tells the true story about what happens when a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying a rugby squad to Chile cashes at a glacier deep in the Andes. Only 29 of the 45 passengers survived the crash, finding themselves in one of the world’s toughest environments, forced to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.
Bayona has written the screenplay with Bernat Vilaplana, Jaime Marques and Nicolás Casariego. Producers are Belén Atienza (The Orphanage) and Sandra Hermida (The Impossible (. Pic will shoot in Sierra Nevada (Andalucía, Spain), in Montevideo (Uruguay) and in various locations in the Andes (both in Chile and Argentina) including El Valle de las Lágrimas, the location where the real incident took place.
Cast will include Enzo Vogrincic Roldán, Matías Recalt, Agustín Pardella, Tomas Wolf, Diego Ariel Vegezzi, Esteban Kukuriczka, Francisco Romero, Rafael Federman, Felipe González Otaño, Agustín Della Corte, Valentino Alonso, Simón Hempe, Fernando Contigiani García, Benjamín Segura, Jerónimo Bosia.
“It was during the documentation process for The Impossible that I discovered Society of the Snow, Pablo Vierci’s fascinating chronicle about the tragedy of the Andes,”Originally published by J. A. Bayona. “More than ten years later, my fascination for the novel remains intact and I am happy to face the challenge that lies ahead: To tell one of the most remembered events of the 20th century, with all the complexity that implies a story that gives so much relevance to the survivors as well as to those who never returned from the mountains. I also face it in Spanish, a language that I excitedly return to after 14 years without filming in my own language, and with a team of young Uruguayan and Argentine actors, whom I’m totally thrilled with.”