Netflix Renews Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Series ‘The Eternaut’ for Season 2

“The Eternaut” just premiered on Netflix two days ago, but a second season of the Argentine apocalyptic sci-fi series is already in the works to wrap up the story.

“Season 2 is going to be very important,” Netflix’s Francisco Ramo tells Deadline. “It’s going to dig into a lot of sci-fi concepts that were just pointed out in Season 1, and they are going to be fully blown.”

“We believe that we will manage to close the whole story in a beautiful way, with probably eight more episodes,” producer Matías Mosteirin adds.

A contemporaneity take on the 1957 Argentine comic written by Héctor G. Oesterheld and illustrated by Francisco Solano Lopez, the show follows a group of survivors in Buenos Aires who must resist an invisible threat from another world after a toxic snowfall kills millions.

Creator and director Bruno Stagnaro will return for Season 2 of “The Eternaut,” which stars Ricardo Darín (The Secret in Their Eyes).

“We wanted for people to actually feel that this could happen in their own city,” said Ramos. “Episode one has a tiny scale; it’s just in the house. Then in episode two, the scale opens to the building, and then in three, it becomes bigger again, the neighborhood, By the fourth episode, it is the whole city.”

“We want to challenge ourselves in the second season just as we challenged ourselves in the first one,” said Mosteirin. “We want to go for more, technically and creatively. We want to use all the knowledge we gained to do things on the second season that we didn’t manage to do on the first.”

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