Madrid-based Álvaro Brechner, “considered one of many essential South American show display screen skills to emerge inside the remaining 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 of us 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 footage on March 17. He’ll shoot in Madrid, the Canary Island of Gran Canaria and Mexico Metropolis with a world Spanish-language stable 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 creative 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 whole 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 of us, 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 through the bands ranks. A written assertion issued Tuesday lists 10 key stable actors. Álamo performs Spain-based Chilean producer and musician Massive 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 perform of Frank, “whose creativity was important for the distinctive sound,” the assertion said.
“The mission marks a sooner than and after for us,” said producer Patricia González, moreover CEO of El Sueño Eterno Footage. “This perform is the fruit of an exhaustive immersion inside the band’s world, attempting to grab and produce to the huge show display screen its legendary music and the essence of the band members,” she added.
Prep took in “cautious interviews with group members, a deep study of its author and the band’s ingenious enchancment and a meticulous manufacturing design,” said González.
The film’s soundtrack will possible 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 Oz huge family, it’s always been a matter of enjoyment for me to have the power to help propagate rock custom to half the world,” he said.
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 a lot of points and is the first film from a screenplay I didn’t write, elevating the question of how I could 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 seen quite a few iterations, conflicts….
Certain, apart from capturing its vitality, what attracts me most is the size of its characters who’re deeply human, very singular, sophisticated. Each band member fought their very personal battle, with passion and a manner 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 said that it’s essential be succesful to sum up in quite a few 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 when you acquire a dream, even when it means shedding the whole thing. How do you keep the essence of who you is likely to be? Any band that’s worthwhile opens the door to additional, self-destruction. Usually our needs’ largest enemy is ourselves. Mägo de Oz 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 apart from U.S. and U.Okay. bands.
Is there one factor about bands which creates internal battle? Maybe the restricted alternate options to specific one’s private creativity?
It’s one factor that fascinates me. How an entity can acquire a creativity and a manner 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 parts. Its parts, the band members, are built-in. Mägo de Oz members keep it up 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 this can possible be a film by Álvaro Brechner?
It’s pretty properly unattainable for a director to not give off a manner of his private imaginative and prescient, in my case a humorousness, of drama and love, and completely different elements akin to fantasy: the excellence between what we dream, what we want to be or think about we’re and what we’re.
You said it’s a large film…..
Resulting from its fairly a number of stable, 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 personal 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.
‘Mägo de Oz, La Película’ stable
Copyright: Ruben Chavero
