Larrains’ Fabula Preps ‘Superman’s Bodyguards,’ on Christopher Reeve’s Chile Trip Under Pinochet’s Dictatorship (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comEmiliano De Pablos The Larraín brothers’ indie company Fábula, producer of Oscar winning “A Fantastic Woman,” is preparing tragi-comic docudrama “Los guardaespaldas de Superman” (“Superman’s Bodyguards”).
The four-episode, half-hour crime-adventure series, directed by Sebastián Radic (“Instrucciones para Mi Funeral”) and scripted by Rodrigo Bastidas and Rodrigo Muñoz, focuses on a trip Christopher Reeve’s made to Chile in 1987, under Pinochet’s dictatorship, to save the lives of 78 people under death threat. “Superman’s Bodyguards” is one of the five projects selected to form part of Pitch Docudrama, a showcase at Conecta Fiction 2023 edition, which takes place June 26-29 in Toledo, the capital of Spain’s Castilla-La Mancha, just south of Madrid.
At Toledo, Fabula execs will be looking for co-production partners to strengthen the possiblility of shooting outside Chile.
Also, they will seek to get the word out to the market that Fabula is producing documentary series content. “The tragicomedy appeals to universal values, based on a story that naturally connects Chile and the U.S.
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