Netflix has announced today that they’ve reunited with Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín (“Maria”) on a new miniseries in the horror genre with “My Sad Dead” (“Mis muertos tristes”), an adaptation of Argentine author Mariana Enriquez‘s story of the same name.
“My Sad Dead” is also pulling source material from other Enriquez works, such as “Julie,” “A Sunny Place For Shady People,” and “Back When We Talked to the Dead.” The writing team adapting the miniseries will include Enriquez, Guillermo Calderón, Anastasia Ayazi, and Larraín.
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An official synopsis for the new horror miniseries courtesy of Netflix:
Ema, a 60-year-old doctor, can see and hear the dead. She calls them “presences” and has lived her entire life avoiding letting this gift connect her with the suffering of others. But when her niece Julie, a disturbed young woman who can also communicate with the dead, but in a much more intense and sexual manner, arrives at her house, Ema is forced to get involved. What begins as a family reunion turns into a disturbing chain of events that alters the balance between the world of the living and the dead, infecting an entire neighborhood with voices from beyond. As the borders between life, death, and desire blur, Ema will have to confront her past, her daughter, and the ghosts she never let go.
Larraín has assembled a cast that consists of Mercedes Morán, Dolores Fonzi, Alejandra Flechner, Carlos Portaluppi, Germán de Silva, Luz Jiménez, and Carolina Sánchez Álvarez.
The streamer’s working relationship with Larraín was on “In Her Place” and “The Count.” His other impressive feature credits include “Ema,” “No,” the recent Angelina Jolie-led opera biopic “Maria,” the Kristen Stewart Princess Diana movie “Spencer,” and directed Natalie Portman in “Jackie.”
“Mariana’s writing is particularly visual, always brilliant, and always dangerous. It’s a casual, domestic horror that inspires and will inspire many film and television adaptations. I’m grateful to Netflix for the opportunity to work with this team of people I admire and who will undoubtedly do everything possible to make the best miniseries possible,” Larraín said in an official statement.
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Filming on “My Sad Dead” is said to begin at the end of the month in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Santiago, Chile.