Netflix has wrapped production on In the Valley of Shadows, a Colombian feature adaptation of H.G. Wells’ 1904 short story The Country of the Blind.
Deadline has revealed the first images from the project, known in its native Spanish as En El Valle De Las Sombras.
Gael García Bernal (Old) and Natalia Reyes (Terminator: Dark Fate) lead a cast that also includes Claudio Cataño (“One Hundred Years of Solitude”), Diego Vásquez (“El Chapo”), and Margarita Rosa de Francisco (“Narcos”).
Sebastián Cordero (Europa Report) directs from a screenplay he co-wrote with María Camila Arias (“One Hundred Years of Solitude”).
It follows Álvar Toledano (García Bernal), a mountaineer who falls into an isolated valley inhabited by a community that has been blind for generations. Toledano is convinced of his superiority, but soon discovers that his ability to see is considered a disturbance rather than an advantage among the people of the valley.
As he tries to adapt, Álvar falls in love with Medina (Reyes), the woman caring for him. Álvar must decide whether to renounce who he is in order to belong, or whether the price of seeing is to flee the valley of shadows.
Dynamo (The Hidden Face, “One Hundred Years of Solitude”) produced the film for Netflix, with Mirlanda Torres serving as executive producer.
In the Valley of Shadows was shot across locations in Boyacá and Cundinamarca, Colombia. It will receive a theatrical release locally before dropping worldwide on the streamer.
