J.A. Bayona Talks Desire To Take Spectators On Same Journey As Survivors In Air Crash Drama ‘Society Of The Snow’ – Contenders London
deadline.comSpanish director J.A. Bayona talked the long and arduous journey to bringing air crash survival drama Society Of The Snow to fruition at Deadline Contenders London on Saturday.
The immersive drama, which is Spain’s Best International Feature Film entry for the 96th Academy Awards, revisits the experiences of the 16 surviving members of the Uruguay rugby team whose plane crashed in the Andes mountains in Argentina in 1972. “There is the question at the end of the trailer that says, ‘Who are we in the mountains?’, and basically to me the whole process of making this film was a process of trying to understand who they were in the mountains,” said Bayona.
The screenplay is adapted from the 2009 book The Snow Society: The Definitive Account Of The World’s Greatest Survival Story by Pablo Vierci, who knew many of the people caught up in the tragedy.
Bayona said Vierci’s work had helped him see the story in a fresh light. “This is a very popular story in the Spanish speaking world, a massive story, in Latin America and Spain.
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