Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End It will be an original Prime Video production directed by Carles Torrens.
Manel Loureiro released in 2007 a novel titled Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End, the first volume in a trilogy about the collapse of civilization caused by a virus that turns the dead into zombies. Sixteen years after that literary bombshell, the arrival on the big screen of the adaptation of said book was announced. This is what we know.
Jose Maria Yazpik, Francisco Ortiz and Berta Vazquez will be protagonists of the film that will be an original production of Prime Video. The direction is in charge of Carlos Torrens (sky red, Fair, Animal companion), who has already started shooting his project in Galicia. This film is a production of Nostromo Pictures with Núria Valls as executive producer together with Adrián Guerra, who acts as producer. The script is in charge of Ángel Agudo.
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synopsis of Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End
A strange rabies-like disease spreads across the planet, turning people into extremely aggressive creatures. At the same time that this happens, Manel (Francisco Ortiz) lives depressed by the loss of his wife in an accident. He lives in complete isolation with Lucullus, his cat, in the city of Vigo.
When the disease gains even more strength, his sister insists that he join her in the Canary Islands, but the plan fails. Therefore, our protagonist has to take refuge in his house and manage to survive.
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There comes a time when he and Lucullus have to go out. On their way they will find travel companions with whom they will live all kinds of experiences, most of them terrifying, when they see what humans have become. Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End promises to capture on the screen all the horror and emotion of the pages written by Loureiro.
Apocalypse Z It was first conceived in a blog and then published in print until it achieved enormous sales success in 2007. The saga is made up of the titles The beginning of the end, the dark days and The wrath of the just. Today it is considered one of the most outstanding trilogies of the Literature Z.
Carles Torrens says that for the film, he has taken three clear influences: Contagion (2011) by Steven Soderbergh, the French series Collapse (2019) and Castaway (2000) by Robert Zemeckis. This leads us to give us a very clear idea of the project that Torrens has in hand.
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