‘Society of the Snow’ – Director J.A. Bayona and Composer Michael Giacchino Reteam for Netflix Survival Thriller Based on True Events

Move over “Yellowjackets,” there’s a new survival thriller involving a plane crash and cannibalism in the works. THR reports today that  J.A. Bayona (The Orphanage, A Monster Calls) is reteaming with his Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom composer, Michael Giacchino (The Batman), for Society of the Snow (La sociedad de la nieve), a Netflix Spanish-language thriller based on true events.

Society of the Snow will tell “the story of the Uruguayan rugby team which, en route to Chile in 1972, crash-landed on a glacier in the heart of the Andes. The survivors were forced to resort to extreme measures in order to stay alive.”

The true events that the survival thriller will be based on puts the emphasis on “extreme measures.” The chartered Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed into the Andes mountains on October 13, 1972 and resulted in grisly deaths and injuries. Weather conditions complicated search efforts and was called off altogether, forcing survivors to take extreme action in their bid for survival.

The events previously inspired the 1993 film Alive by director Frank Marshall starring Ethan Hawke.

Bayona, Bernat Vilaplana, Jaime Marques and Nicolás Casariego co-wrote the screenplay, based on the non-fiction book La sociedad de la nieve by Pablo Vierci.

Giaccino most recently directed and composed the score for the Marvel Halloween special Werewolf by Night.

THR reports that filming on Society of the Snow already “took place in 2022 in Spain, Uruguay and Chile including on location in the El Valle de las Lágrimas, where the real crash occurred.”

Enzo Vogrincic Roldán, Matías Recalt, Agustín Pardella, Tomas Wolf, Diego Ariel Vegezzi, Esteban Kukuriczka, Francisco Romero, Rafael Federman, Felipe González Otaño, Agustín Della Corte, Valentino Alonso, Simón Hempe, Fernando Contigiani García, Benjamín Segura and Jerónimo Bosia star.

Netflix will release the film worldwide, though no release date has been set at this time.