Renowned Chilean director Pablo Larraín is set to begin production on his next Netflix film Once (No. 11) later this year. The film depicts 11 stories that take place after the momentous coup d’état that took place in Chile on September 11, 1973.
Through these intertwined stories, “Once” follows a continuous 18 hours after a military coup, culminating in the bombing of La Moneda Palace, the seat of government, and the death of then-President Salvador Allende.
Citing the successful partnership with Larraín on Netflix’s “The Count” (“El Conde”) and the TV series “My Sad Dead,” Francisco Ramos, Netflix’s Vice President of Latin American Original Content, said, “We are committed to providing the highest quality Pablo has assembled an incredible cast and crew, including (cinematographer) Rodrigo Prieto and (production designer) Guy Hendrix, with whom he co-wrote the original script.” Guillermo Calderon is truly an extraordinary person. ”
“Maria” and “Spencer” director Larrain has brought on Christopher Nolan’s regular Oscar-winning VFX supervisor Andrew Jackson for the first time. It also marks the first collaboration between Prieto and Lalantin, the multiple Oscar nominees who worked on Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, Killers of the Flower Moon, Silence and The Wolf of Wall Street.
“Thanks to the trust and support of Netflix and the work of some truly great artists, I now face the big and wonderful challenge of making a war film,” Larrain told Variety.
“Once,” produced by the Larraín brothers’ Fabula, features an all-star cast led by Alfredo Castro, a regular in Larraín films such as “The Count.”
The remaining cast includes Marcelo Alonso (The Club), Octavia Bernasconi (The Pack), Roberto Farias (The Club), Octavia Bernasconi (The Pack), and Alejandro Gojic (The Club). ), Alejandro Gojic (The Club), Camila Milenka (7 Weeks), Valentina Mule (After the Fog), and Marshall Tagle, some of whom have participated in previous Fabula productions. (“No”) and Lucas Vergara (“Disconnect”).
Fabula’s Juan de Dios Larraín and Rocío Jadue have joined Larraín as producers. Alejandro Wise and Marian Hurtado will serve as executive producers.
This is not the first time Larraín has delved into Chile’s traumatic past, including in “No” and more recently “The Count,” in which he plays a 250-year-old vampire who is tortured by military dictator Augusto Pinochet.
“Once” is scheduled to begin full-scale filming in the second half of the year.
