Spain’s J.A. Bayona, director of “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” and two episodes of “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” is developing an adaptation of Manuel Chaves Nogales’ short story collection “A sangre y fuego,” now considered by some in Spain as the best portrayal by a Spaniard of its ghastly Spanish Civil War.
Bayona is working with writer-director Agustín Díaz Yanes to develop a script, based on the book by Chaves Nogales who died in exile in London in 1944.
Talking on stage at the Seville European Film Festival, which opened on Friday, Bayona said he had been developing the project for several years and is “especially interested in the humanist vision” that Chaves Nogales showed in the fiction book.
Written over 1936-37 by Chaves Nogales in reaction to what he called “the stupidity and cruelty which lorded over Spain” during the Spanish Civil War, practiced by...
Bayona is working with writer-director Agustín Díaz Yanes to develop a script, based on the book by Chaves Nogales who died in exile in London in 1944.
Talking on stage at the Seville European Film Festival, which opened on Friday, Bayona said he had been developing the project for several years and is “especially interested in the humanist vision” that Chaves Nogales showed in the fiction book.
Written over 1936-37 by Chaves Nogales in reaction to what he called “the stupidity and cruelty which lorded over Spain” during the Spanish Civil War, practiced by...
- 11/6/2022
- by Liza Foreman
- Variety Film + TV
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