In so many interviews, I’d always end saying, hopefully my next movie will be in Spanish. It actually wasn’t the plan, because I’ve been trying to look to get the finance to do this film for many, many years. How did it feel to make your first film in Spanish after so long? Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Bayona discusses being first inspired to make Society of the Snow while researching his 2012 real-life disaster thriller The Impossible, how he managed to convince the survivors that he was going to handle their story sensitively, actually shooting in the very same spot where the accident took place and how it feels to have helped launch the career of Spider-man himself, Tom Holland (who Bayona likens to Tom Hanks). But Bayona says his is the first to tell the story of the entire “society” on board the plane and is the first that involved the survivors and the families of those who died, to the extent that they allowed the film to use their real names. The disaster, which saw a plane of 45 mostly young rugby players from Uruguay crash in the Andes, with only 16 people surviving after 72 days in the snowy environment and after having been forced to take extreme measures - including cannibalism - to stay alive, has been put to screen before (most notably Frank Marshall’s 1993 film Alive). 'Housekeeping for Beginners' Review: A Delightful Dramatic Comedy About a Blended Family of Queer and Roma Outcasts But it also marks the director’s return to his native Spanish language for the first time in 16 years, since his 2007 breakout The Orphanage. Society of the Snow, a survival thriller about the Uruguayan 1972 Andes flight disaster and based on Pablo Vierci’s book, comes from Netflix and is set to close the 2023 Venice Film Festival out of competition on Saturday. Now, he returns with something a little different. Bayona has gone from prehistoric blockbusters with Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and mega-budget trips to Mordor with Amazon’s The Rings of Power (he directed the first two episodes).
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