Daniel H. Torrado has already tackled the coronavirus with his horror thriller COVID 21: Lethal Virus, which is being sold by London-based Kaleidoscope Film Distribution, reports Variety.

“COVID 21 is set in a broken world still struggling to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, where a mutated new super virus threatens to destroy the remnants of mankind. When civilization is hit with the outbreak of a new lethal virus, the results are swift, chaotic, and deadly, throwing the world into further crisis.

“With the last hopes for a cure pinned on brilliant young scientist, Allyson, the military are given one final mission: to deliver Allyson to her laboratory at all costs. It’s a duty undertaken without hesitation.

“Yet as the pandemic intensifies, and their progress, numbers, and optimism start to dwindle, the group find themselves struggling not only with the infected population, but with a sombre dilemma: Does humanity truly deserve to be saved?”

The film market premieres at the Malaga Festival’s Spanish Screenings online showcase. A deal for North America is currently under negotiations.

Interestingly, the film started production in 2019.

“We watched in amazement as the script was becoming reality before our eyes,” writer-director Daniel Hernández Torrado told Variety. “During filming, we also suffered climate change, in the form of unexpected snowfalls and torrential rains, but we decided to take advantage of the setbacks turning them to our favor, adapting the scenes and including snowfall sequences of great visual beauty.”

“The aim of the film is to entertain with a good dose of action and suspense while we warn about the dangers of climate change and the need for a more caring society,” he added.

Christian Stam (“Westworld”), Loretta Hope (“Barren,” “Hexagon”), Ramón Álvarez (Justice League, Jurassic World) and Tomás Paredes (Maleficent, El Cid) topline the film.

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