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Álvaro Brechner to Direct Folk Metal Band Saga ‘Mägo de Oz, La Película’: ‘What Attracts Me Most Is Its Characters’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Produced by El Sueño Eterno Pictures, the biopic stars Spain’s Adrían Lastra, Roberto Älamo, Mexico’s Michelle Renaud and Michael Ronda.
Madrid-based Álvaro Brechner, “one of the leading South American screen talents to emerge in the last decade,” Variety wrote in a review of his Venice-selected “A Twelve-Year Night,” is attached to direct “Mägo de Oz, La Película” a big-scale bio of the Spanish folk metal band. Behind Cannes Critics’ Week player “Bad Day to Go Fishing,” sales hit “Mr Kaplan” and the Venice-selected “A Twelve-Year Night,” all Oscar entries from Uruguay, Brechner will initiate principal photography on March 17. And the group’s energy took me back – the nostalgia gave me goose-pimples, was stomach-churning – to my 15 year-old-self, a heavy rock fan, to a world where I played music at full volume, proving my parents’ patience.
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