JA Bayona does not stop. A few weeks ago he left half the world ojiplático with his overwhelming first two chapters of ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’, he is mired in the post-production process of his next feature film ‘The Snow Society’ and, as if this were not enough, and is working on a new project with Agustín Díaz Yanes.
From Middle Earth to Civil War
As announced during a new session of the Essential Voices cycle within the framework of the Seville Festival, the Barcelona filmmaker Together with Díaz Yanes, he is preparing the script that will adapt ‘Blood and Fire. Heroes, beasts and martyrs of Spain’the book by the journalist and writer Manuel Chaves Nogales made up of nine stories and cataloged by many as one of the best works written about the Spanish Civil War.
Bayona, who discovered the work of Chaves Nogales a long time ago, has extolled “the humanist vision” that permeates all the pieces that make up ‘Blood and Fire’, all of them based according to their author on true events. At the moment, no further details have been disclosed about a production that It already has several years of development behind itand which is preceded by a radio adaptation broadcast on Onda Cero under the direction of Carlos Alsina.
Before the arrival of ‘Blood and Fire’, JA Bayona will premiere the aforementioned ‘The Snow Society’, produced by Apaches and Telecinco Cinema and that will tell the true story —which Frank Marshall has already transferred to the big screen in ‘Live’— of a Uruguayan rugby team forced to survive on a glacier in the Andes after the plane that was supposed to take them to Chile crashed.