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J.A. Bayona’s biographical drama Society of the Snow will premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September 2023, and will eventually be released on Netflix in January 2024. Here’s everything we know so far about the Society of the Snow on Netflix.
The film will be directed by J.A. Bayona, whose credits include The Orphanage, A Monster Calls, and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom as well as the upcoming Lord of the Rings series from Amazon. The movie is set to be written by Bayona, Bernat Vilaplana, Jaime Marques, and Nicolás Casariego.
Picture: J.A. Bayona (left) and Pedro Luque (right) – Apaches Entertainment
Director J. A. Bayona commented on the development of this film:
“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. More than 10 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.”
Producers include Belén Atienza (The Impossible, The Orphanage) and Sandra Hermida (The Impossible, A Monster Calls). Here’s everything else we know about Netflix’s Society of the Snow:
What’s the Netflix release date for Society of the Snow?
Society of the Snow will premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 9th, 2023.
The film will be released on Netflix at a later date, which we understand is currently scheduled for January 4th, 2024.
All release dates are subject to change.
What’s the story behind Society of the Snow?
Society of the Snow (La Sociedad de la Nieve) will tell the story of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which in 1972 was chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile and catastrophically crashed on a glacier in the heart of the Andes. Only 29 of the 45 passengers survived the crash and, finding themselves in one of the world’s toughest environments, they were forced to resort to extreme measures — including cannibalism — to stay alive.
The film is based on the book La sociedad de la nieve by Pablo Vierci.
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Who is cast in Society of the Snow?
The ensemble cast of Netflix’s Society of the Snow includes 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 and Jerónimo Bosia.
What’s the production status of Society of the Snow?
As of January 2022, Netflix’s Society of the Snow is completed.
Filming for Netflix’s Society of the Snow will took place in the 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, where the events actually took place.
Filming began on November 29th, 2021, and came to an end by January 29th, 2022.
Producers Atienza and Hermida said the following about the upcoming shoot:
“After a few years working on the project, we are very terribly excited to start filming Society of the Snow. We want to thank Netflix for their determined support of this project, which will be shot entirely in Spanish, and also thank the survivors and the families of those who perished in the tragedy of the Andes, for their enormous generosity in sharing their story with us.”
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Netflix Synopsis: "Following a plane crash in the remote heart of the Andes, survivors join forces and become each other's best hope as they navigate their way back home."
