Prominent Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín is set to kick off production on his next feature for Netflix, “Once” (as in the number 11) later this year. The film will follow 11 stories that occurred in the wake of the momentous coup d’état in Chile on September 11, 1973.
Through these intertwined stories, “Once” follows the 18 consecutive hours following the military coup, ending in the bombing of the official government headquarters, La Moneda Palace, and the demise of then president Salvador Allende.
Noting Netflix’s successful partnership with Larraín on “The Count” (“El Conde”) and TV series “My Sad Dead,” Netflix’s VP of Latin American original content Francisco Ramos said, “We are committed to Latin America storytelling of the highest caliber and quality. Pablo has assembled an amazing cast and crew, including [DP] Rodrigo Prieto and [Production Designer] Guy Hendrix, and his original screenplay co-written with Guillermo Calderón is just extraordinary.”
“Maria” and “Spencer” director Larraín has also brought in Oscar-winning VFX supervisor Andrew Jackson, a regular collaborator of Christopher Nolan for the first time. It will also be Larrain’s first collaboration with the multi-Oscar nominated Prieto, who has worked on Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Silence” and “The Wolf of Wall Street.”
