La Claqueta Goes ‘Hunting’ With Alberto Marini (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

Emiliano De Pablos Prolific Andalusian production company La Claqueta has tapped award-winning screenwriter-producer Alberto Marini (“La Unidad,” “Apagón”) to direct rural thriller “Últimos días de caza” (“Last Days of Hunting.”) Penned by José Cabeza, co-scribe on 2016’s “7 Years,” Netflix first Spanish original movie, “Last Days of Hunting” has a completed screenplay and has initiated financing.

The aim is to close the financing phase during this year and begin shooting second quarter 2024, probably in northern Spain. “Last Days of Hunting” leads a growth-period for Seville-based La Claqueta, which is raising the ante in terms of film production ambitions.  “This is a noir that revolves around torpid masculinity; it is the story of volcanoes that don’t know how to release lava when they should and that explode inwards,” said Marini, who debuted as a helmer with 2015 horror feature “Summer Camp.” “The story takes place in a very localized universe and is grounded in the territory but its universal plot allows the possibility for input from national and international partners,” added La Claqueta’s co-founder Olmo Figueredo.

Beyond writing on recent Movistar Plus’ hit TV dramas “La Unidad” and “Offworld,” a Variety Best International TV Show of 2022, Marini served as an executive producer on cult zombie franchise “REC,” one of the most profitable European genre sagas in history.

Selected by Spain’s Dama Ayuda script tutoring, “Last Days of Hunting” turns on the pain caused by the betrayal of the one he loves the most which convinces a simple and good man that the world is a darker place than he had always believed.