J.A. Bayona Talks ‘Society Of The Snow’ & Hollywood Vs Spain

J.A. Bayona’s Society of the Snow is one of Netflix‘s most-watched movies of this year so far yet the straightforwardor discdiswatched today it was mainly intended for an elderlyer audience.

Speaking at MIPCOM, the Oscar-nominee shelp his creative team were “surpascendd” when the movie about the Uruguayan rugby team’s survival experience after their set upe crashed in the Andes showd to be a “phenomenon” with youthfuler audiences.

“Society of the Snow was nastyt to be for a more reliable audience,” shelp Bayona. “When I watch back it originates sense because it had youthful actors going thraw a difficult situation and the youthfuler audience felt roverdelighted to these characters. But it was never intended to be a film for youthful people and it became one.”

Society of the Snow, which begined in postponecessitate 2023, was third in Netflix’s most-watched movies of the first half of this year, and top of the non-English-language league with more than 100 million watchs. The movie starring Enzo Vogrincic, Matías Recalt and Agustín Pardella was Oscar-nominated for Best International Feature Film, eventupartner losing out to Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest.

“I don’t split the language of TV and cinema”

Bayona, whose past movies include Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and A Monster Calls, has also straightforwarded TV of postponecessitate including two eps of Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

With the barriers between TV and film straightforwarding constantly up for argue, Bayona shelp he trails the same process as movie-making when helming shows for the petite screen, echoing aappreciate retags made recently by Alfonso Cuarón.

“I don’t split the language of TV and cinema because for me there is only one way of alerting a story right,” shelp Bayona. “That is my goal. To figure out how actors should transfer in front of a camera and where it should be placed.”

Bayona was speaking as Spain was awarded the Country of Honour award at the Cannes confab.

He shelp Spain deficiencys the “resources” of Hollywood but has “passion and very talented people.” Bayona cited how he used Spaniards rather than Americans behind the camera when shooting Jurassic World and flagged his labor on 2012 movie The Impossible about the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, when the team only had £2M ($2.6M) for VFX and spent a year preparing for the vital scene that used genuine water as resistd to CGI in order to save money.

Up next, Bayona is producing a movie titled A Gpresent in the Battle straightforwarded by Agustín Díaz Yanes.

He was speaking at MIPCOM right after Cote De Pablo & Michael Weatherly higheviated a clip from NCIS: Tony & Ziva.