Omar Ag Pardavé
Mexico City / 03.05.2025 04:41:12
It is already in Netflix The expected series El Eternalauta, an adaptation of the popular homonymous graphic novel which transcended generations in Argentina and Latin America.
The story begins With a strange toxic snow that falls in the city of Buenos Aires as the first stage of an extraterrestrial invasion. The crisis worsens when surviving humans have to deal with threats without killing each other first.
Actors Ricardo Darín and Cesar Troncoso spoke in an interview with Millennium on adapting the background of the classic story and the outstanding special effects that they used in the recording of the series.
The original comic follows the story of Juan Salvo; In the series, Juan is at a meeting with his friends when everything starts, The urgency of finding his ex -wife and his daughter is what forces him to enter the hermetic trajE to go to the exterior toxic on this journey.
Ricardo Darín was aware at all times of the responsibility he would imply Give this character so established in Argentine pop culture:
“It meant a challenge, a collective adventure with my colleagues in which I immersed myself with joy and a little fear because we are talking about a well -known Argentine comic, respected and loved for many decades,” the leading actor shared.
On How to put aside expectations to make a proposal Modern, Ricardo shared: “As my friend César Ramón said, the way of dealing with that is to try to get the weight off and take extraordinary freedoms, as well as take this version that the original brings the original to our day and recreates a whole group of people.”
And it is that the original work takes place in the year of its publication, 1957; lA series is currently taking place, a way to modernize the story. Technological advances do not affect the development and resolution of conflicts because all electronic devices stop operating when the invasion begins.
Keys
Already in NetflixThe series has six episodes that can already be seen on the streaming platform.
New generation
Martín Oesterheld, grandson of the author of the novel Héctor G. Oesterheld, worked as a creative consultant of the series.
The format
The project was initially going to be a film, but it was decided that it was a series for the complicated to adapt the original story to the format.
political and social background
The writer of the graphic novel, Héctor Germán Oesterheld, was a militant in the guerrillas of Montoneros which caused his disappearance (and probable execution) in 1977 at the hands of the military dictatorship that dominated his country between 1976 and 1983.
Oesterheld included in His graphic work the political and social criticism that marked his life, Now in the adaptation of Netflix it is inevitable to ask what political and social criticism of today includes, considering the current economic crisis of Argentina, its controversial president and the social context of the country and the world.
“I think it focuses specifically socially. While it is true that everything is political in one way or another, it is specifically oriented towards the social, to human behavior in the face of extraordinary situations, out of control and unexpected,” Ricardo said about the background of the series.
The Eternaluta is not far from other projects by reflecting the dangerous reactions That the masses would have before an apocalyptic event, in which it is not known to trust and the situation can get out of control at any time.
“It puts us in front of a mirror to discover what we are made of, how we react, whether we are supportive or not; If the first is the save who can or understand that that does not lead anywhere And that the only way to survive, to overcome this hostile instance is hand in hand with the rest of the members of your group, your clan, ”explained the protagonist.
“I think that is what the Eternalauta proposes since its genesis, from the old cartoon that has been respected and sustained in this new version,” he concluded about the importance of people’s unity to get ahead in the plot of the program.
The special effects
From the beginning of filming in May 2023the series boasted of its innovation in special effects of a scale not seen in productions in Latin America.
Nicanor Enriquez, the supervisor of the special effects team, previously spoke about the challenge that was to fill a conventional scenario between two thousand and three thousand square meters with the particular snow, for which uThey tilized more than 35 tons of material per stage, taking around seven hours to make up the stage with a team of ten to 15 people.
Also The use of green screens was avoided by replacing them in the recordings with LED screens high definition that have been used in Hollywood productions of recent years such as The Batman (DC) and The Mandalorian (Star Wars).
All These special effect features benefited the Convention From history for both the audience and the actors at the time of being in the set, as explained by actor César Troncoso who plays Alfredo Favalli, Juan’s best friend.
“It was a new experience, quite different from others, because when you work in science fiction you are always working with very advanced technological tools, unlike other films that you make more minimalist. Before with the old green croma screens they told you: Imagine that this will happen here. Now work with LED screens, it facilitates you a lot to act because you are seeing the action at the time,” said the Uruguayan actor.
César too He highlighted the balance between the use of digital and practical effects to get a better result as seen in the Eternaluta.
“We have a very suitable balance, I think, between the technological and the human. Because there are a series of snowy scenarios that you see and seem built from the digital effects, but in reality they are built with the work of the classmates on the set, which left blocks and snow blocks on the streets of the city of Buenos Aires,” affirming with satisfaction on work in the scenery.
