Madrid-based Álvaro Brechner, “considered one of many predominant South American show display skills to emerge inside the last decade,” Choice wrote in a consider of his Venice-selected “A Twelve-Yr Night,” is related to direct “Mägo de Oz, La Película” a big-scale bio of the Spanish people metal band.
Behind Cannes Critics’ Week participant “Harmful Day to Go Fishing,” product sales hit “Mr Kaplan” and the Venice-selected “A Twelve-Yr Night,” all Oscar entries from Uruguay, Brechner will provoke principal photos on March 17. He’ll shoot in Madrid, the Canary Island of Gran Canaria and Mexico Metropolis with a worldwide Spanish-language strong along with Spain’s Adrián Lastra (“Velvet”) and Roberto Álamo (“Riot Police”) and Mexico’s Michelle Renaud (“Malvada”) and Michael Ronda (“Cuando sea joven”).
The movie is produced by on-the-rise Spanish outfit Eterno Island Footage, a subsidiary of El Sueño Eterno Footage (“El Largo Viaje”). It’s written by Sofía Cuenca, a co-scribe on “My Fault,” proclaimed by Prime Video shortly after its launch in 2023 as a result of the service’s hottest non-English language movie ever.
Mägo de Ozhas revealed over 20 albums, selling north of two million copies and scoring a Latin Grammy nomination.
“From its humble beginnings inside the ‘80s to worldwide consecration, the film delves into the inventive tensions, victories, polemics and defeats which forged its essence,” the synopsis says. “Moreover, it ought to plumb the group’s internal dynamics, its followers’ unbreakable devotion, displaying how its music impacted total generations,” it added.
Primarily based by drummer Txus de Fellatio (carried out by Lastra) in 1988, Mägo de Ozthe band stands out for its fusion of heavy and power metal and Celtic people, violinist Mohamed “Moha” (the musician Guillermo Furiase) changing into a member of in 1992 and Fernando Ponce de León (Marc Parejo, “Acacias 38”) boarding in 1999 to play flute, whistles, gaita and bagpipes.
Moreover excellent is the huge number of musicians who’ve handed by way of the bands ranks. A written assertion issued Tuesday lists 10 key strong actors. Álamo performs Spain-based Chilean producer and musician Giant Simon, an important have an effect on on Mägo de Ozin its early years; Rennaud limns Patricia Tapia, its largest female vocalist; Ronda will sort out the operate of Frank, “whose creativity was important for the distinctive sound,” the assertion acknowledged.
“The mission marks a sooner than and after for us,” acknowledged producer Patricia González, moreover CEO of El Sueño Eterno Footage. “This operate is the fruit of an exhaustive immersion inside the band’s world, attempting to grab and produce to the huge show display its legendary music and the essence of the band members,” she added.
Prep took in “cautious interviews with group members, a deep look at of its author and the band’s ingenious enchancment and a meticulous manufacturing design,” acknowledged González.
The film’s soundtrack will probably be composed by Txus di Fellatio and Mohamed who might even create distinctive tracks for the film and supervise the inclusion on the soundtrack of the band’s finest hits.
Pedro Díaz “Peri” serves as authorities producer. “As a member of the Mago de Ounces huge family, it’s always been a matter of pleasure for me to have the power to help propagate rock custom to half the world,” he acknowledged.
Choice talked to Brechner about “Mägo de Oz, La Película.”
What attracted you to “Mägo de Oz”?
The issue. It’s a large mission taking in plenty of points and is the first film from a screenplay I didn’t write, elevating the question of how I’ll mix my very personal sensibility, sense of drama and humor. And the group’s vitality took me once more – the nostalgia gave me goose-pimples, was stomach-churning – to my 15 year-old-self, a heavy rock fan, to a world the place I carried out music at full amount, proving my dad and mother’ persistence.
The band observed numerous iterations, conflicts….
Certain, other than capturing its vitality, what attracts me most is the scale of its characters who’re deeply human, very singular, sophisticated. Each band member fought their very personal battle, with passion and a means of vulnerability. [The film will show] their ambitions and defeats and a search for fame, friendship and redemption.
Mexican writer-director Guillermo Arriaga as quickly as acknowledged that that you must be succesful to sum up in numerous phrases what your work is about.
It’s a number of group of folks that have a dream which turns into actuality, which suggests they’re on the aim of shedding the whole thing and should reinvent themselves. It asks the way in which you go on whilst you receive a dream, even when it means shedding the whole thing. How do you keep the essence of who you may be? Any band that’s worthwhile opens the door to additional, self-destruction. Sometimes our wishes’ largest enemy is ourselves. Mägo de Ounces story is very singular in unfolding in a Hispanic context in Spain, the place the band lives its day-to-day life in Madrid. It’s as if it marks us other than U.S. and U.Okay. bands.
Is there one factor about bands which creates internal battle? Maybe the restricted options to specific one’s private creativity?
It’s one factor that fascinates me. How an entity can receive a creativity and a means of its private, whereas being made up of assorted band members. It’s not a case of 1 plus one or a sum of its components. Its components, the band members, are built-in. Mägo de Ounces members stick with it altering, musicians come and go, nonetheless the band’s identification survived, reaching a kind of independence in itself…..
In what method would you sense that it will probably be a film by Álvaro Brechner?
It’s pretty properly unattainable for a director to not give off a means of his private imaginative and prescient, in my case a humorousness, of drama and love, and totally different elements similar to fantasy: the excellence between what we dream, what we want to be or think about we’re and what we’re.
You acknowledged it’s a large film…..
As a result of its fairly a number of strong, the years it covers, the huge coronary coronary heart the film has and its huge narrative – that claims various points all through a really very long time not merely regarding the band nonetheless non-public points about its members and points about Spain. And have you ever ever tried to shoot 10 musicians having fun with collectively on a stage? That’s an issue in itself.
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