Rock. The Eternalutathe great Argentine production based on Hector Germán Oesterheld’s cartoon, became a global phenomenon. In the weekly summary of the platform Netflixin the Non -English -speaking shows, the six -chapter series released on April 30 (that is, two days less than their competitors) became the most seen worldwide.
In total, The Eternaluta was number 1 in thirteen countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Czech Republic, El Salvador, Italy, Panama, Paraguay, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, Uruguay and Venezuela) and reached the top ten in 87 country. It was seen 10,800,000 times, totaling 58,300,000 hours of screen. The Korean a weak hero, reached the second position but was left to several bodies: they saw it 6,400,000 times.
The work is based on the graphic novel written by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and illustrated by Francisco Solano López. It was published in Argentina between 1957 and 1959, In the magazine Hora Zero, and its 106 episodes appeared every Wednesday. The novelty was that it was science fiction, but was set in a daily Buenos Aires. And those who faced the invaders were common people. In 1976, the same authors published Eternaluta II, in Skorpio magazine.
The director of El Eternalauta, Bruno Stagnaroit is central in this event. He is immersed in the universe of Oesterheld’s cartoon since child Life and, in some way, had a great influence on what I did later, where the city is a living presence, almost as one more character.
Starring Ricardo Darín (The actor who had more filming days: 113), CArla Peterson, César Troncoso, Andrea Pietra, Ariel Staltari (also screenwriter) and Marcelo Subbiotto Among others, the seed of El Eternalauta was planted in 2019 in Argentina, when the local team was formed that would carry out the super production. The work of adapting the comic to the screen took two years of writing the scripts, which followed four months of preproduction, 148 Daming days in more than 50 locations in the city of Buenos Aires and the Conurbano and 35 virtual scenarios, and more than a year and a half of post production. In total, 2900 personasbetween cast and extras, they took part in the series, which they used, for example, more than 500 masks.
The production of El Eternalauta had no precedents in our country. For example, an important portion of the neighborhoods of the northern area of capital and Greater Buenos Aires were recreated digitally through photogrammetry and 3D scanning techniques through drones, cameras and other technologies with which they captured streets, trains, facades and different urban landscapes.
Snow is a central element in history. In a city where there are only three snowfall records in its history, he surprised. To generate that white (and mortal) mantle, they were necessary 598 tons of salt, between 3 and 4 tons of cellulose and 600 kilograms of eco-snow. During each recording day, the snow covered around 3,000m2. Of course, then it had to be cleaned: this insumed about five more hours on average. Action scenes are another attractions of the series. 250 weapons of 20 different types were used in them.
