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Aliens invade Argentina. England given back the World Cup!
Posted by Mack at 1:43pm.
Posted in Film News , Cult, Action, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mexico & South America.
Okay, that second bit isn’t true, but Argentina is stepping up the plate and pitching their take on the end of the world genre. EL ETERNAUTA, a horror/sci-fi epic to be written and directed by Lucrecia Martel, was a comic book series from 1957 to 1959.
A description of the original comic series As an extraterrestrial invasion of Earth takes place, a few people in Buenos Aires figure out how to survive using specially made suits, protecting them from a deadly alien snowfall. A resistance army forms & battles are fought, but it becomes obvious that the true invaders aren’t around… they control everything from a distance. Juan Salvo, the protagonist, attempts to escape with his wife & daughter but accidentally triggers a time-travel device. The remainder of the series is about him trying to find them in the time continuum.
Because this was a long running series we don’t know how far into that story arc Martel wishes to go. Given that it is just a film she probably won’t take it too far into the time travel incidents from the comic. We don’t know. We’re going to dig into this a bit more and see what we can find out for you. Perhaps though she may decide to use imagery such as the one found on the cover of L’Eternauta magazine posted after the break [NSFW]. Tee hee.
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El Duderino 05/22/2008 @ 6:28am
L’eternauta is actually one of the greatest sc-fi comics ever.
I’m curious to see how this turns out.
Nofare 05/22/2008 @ 8:13am
Yes. It is a classic, which is why I’m worried about an adaptation of it. From the same author, A. Breccia, I’d recommend his take on the myth of Cthulhu and Lovecraft’s work - as far as I’m concerned, the only good visual adaption of HPL’s vision, period.