Maxance Vincent
The first trailer for Society of the Snow has been released online. Written and directed by J.A. Bayona and co-written by Bernat Vilaplana, Jaime Marques, and Nicolás Casariego, the film is an adaptation of the book of the same name written by Pablo Vierci.
Society of the Snow will star Enzo Vogrincic, Agustín Pardella, Matías Recalt, Esteban Bigliardi, Diego Vegezzi, Fernando Contigiani García, Esteban Kukuriczka, Rafael Federman, Francisco Romero, Valentino Alonso, Tomás Wolf, Agustín Della Corte, Felipe Otaño, Andy Pruss, Blas Polidori, Felipe Ramusio, and Simón Hempe.
Here is the plot synopsis:
“In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had been chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile, crashed in the heart of the Andes. Only 29 of its 45 passengers survived the accident. Trapped in one of the most hostile and inaccessible environments on the planet, they have to resort to extreme measures to stay alive.”
You can watch the trailer below and see the movie in select theatres on December 22 before it makes its way to Netflix on January 4:
Not thrilled with J.A. Bayona becoming The Harrowing Survival Movie Guy™, but this is a pretty amazing story. You’re Wrong About actually did an episode about this.
It’s been a while since he directed a survival story though. Looking forward to this one.