Argentine actor Darín will star in the series based on the comic “El Eternauta”

the argentinian actor Ricardo Darinprotagonist of the multi-award-winning film “Argentina, 1985″, announced that he will star in a series based on the famous comic “El Eternauta” for the platform Netflix.

Considered the pinnacle work of Argentine comics, “El Eternauta” was written by screenwriter Héctor Oesterheld, who disappeared in 1977 during the dictatorship, and drawn by his compatriot Francisco Solano López. The comic began to be published in weekly installments in 1957 and had numerous reissues.

“We are about to start a huge project in a very short time, really very complex, very complicated to do,” Darín told CNN radio Argentina on Monday.

“The story of ‘El Eternauta’ on which the project is based aims to have an opening, to have a scope a little beyond the borders of our country. The version is ‘aggiornada’ (updated, ndlr), based on the real comic but there is a new version”, explained the artist.

Starring in successful films such as “Nine Queens”, “Wild Tales” and “El Secreto de sus Ojos”, Darín has just won the Platinum Award for Best Actor in Spain for “Argentina, 1985”.

“We are all very enthusiastic and very mobilized because it is a huge project, very hard work awaits me. I am trying to prepare myself because it is a great physical and mental demand and I think it will be something that will not go unnoticed”, said the actor.

The Netflix series will be directed by Bruno Stagnaro.

“El Eternauta” is a science fiction story whose heroes are a group of survivors in a world invaded by aliens. An explosion in the Pacific Ocean followed by deadly snowfall in Buenos Aires gives rise to the resistance led by Juan Salvo, the man who with a sort of diving suit as a protective suit, becomes the Eternaut.

A political militant, Oesterheld was kidnapped in 1977 and remains missing, along with his four daughters -two of whom were pregnant- and three of his sons-in-law. Some 30,000 people disappeared during the dictatorship (1976-1983), according to humanitarian organizations.