In order to ramp up its international productions, Netflix is teaming up with renowned filmmaker J.A. Bayona to produce a movie based on real-life events called Society of the Snow. The film will be entirely in Spanish.
Director J. A. Bayona commented on the development of this film:
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 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.
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 in active development and pre-production.
Filming for Netflix’s Society of the Snow will take 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.
Producers Atienza and Hermida said the following about the upcoming shoot:
What’s the Netflix release date for Society of the Snow?
Netflix hasn’t announced a release date for Society of the Snow, but given a likely 2022 production start, we should probably expect a release in 2023.
