The Eternaut Series Adapts the Argentine Graphic Novel
Netflix has shared the new trailer and key art for the sci-fi series The Eternaut, which will begin streaming globally on April 30.
One summer’s night in Buenos Aires, a mysterious snowfall wipes out millions with only a touch, leaving the survivors all alone. Juan Salvo and his friends embark on a desperate struggle for survival.
But everything changes when they discover that the deadly snow is only the first attack by a foreign army invading Earth. No one will survive on their own – the only way to stay alive is to join together and fight.
The live-action series is based on the 1957 graphic novel by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Solano López. The six-episode series was created and directed by Bruno Stagnaro (Okupas) and co-written by Stagnaro and writer-actor Ariel Staltari (Un Gallo para Esculapio).
The cast includes Ricardo Darín, Carla Peterson, César Troncoso, Andrea Pietra, Ariel Staltari, Marcelo Subiotto, Claudio Martínez Bel, Orianna Cárdenas, and Mora Fisz.
The Netflix series was produced by Hugo Sigman, Matías Mosteirin, Leticia Cristi, and Diego Copello. Martín M. Oesterheld is the creative consultant, and K&S Films is the production company.
“[The Eternaut] was one of the first things I read in full in my life, when I was 10 years old,” Stagnaro told Netflix blog Tudum about the graphic novel, one that holds cultural significance across Argentina (“The city is a living presence, almost like another character”).
“My approach to the adaptation will be to be faithful to that child reader who came across the story for the first time, to try to reconstruct the genuine emotion of living an adventure on the corner of your neighborhood, and the construction of that great Argentine hero that is Juan Salvo.”
