Film Adaptation
The possibility of adapting El Eternauta to the silver screen had been tossed around for years, with several interested directors, such as Adolfo Aristarain, Fernando Solanas or Gustavo Mosquera, but due to excessive production costs the project never materialized.
Nowadays, an Italian production company is working, under supervision by Elsa Oesterheld, on a movie adaptation of the original comic. The story would take place in Buenos Aires and the Italian producers are in discussion with the INCAA over the possibility of co-producing the film.
Lucrecia Martel was slated to direct the film, having stated that production was already past the "embryonic stages", but she was later removed from the project due to conceptual differences with the producers.
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