“The Simulators” are back “with an incredible film”, announced Paramount+

Just an hour after the tweet was published, the news became a trend: “They are back. The Simulators are back with an incredible film”, announced Paramount+ on its official Latin American account.

The beloved and award-winning series that originally aired in Argentina 20 years ago, and generated remakes in Mexico, Spain, Chile and Russia, among other countries, will have its cinematic version that will hit theaters, and then to the streaming platform that spread the novelty, in 2024.

Mario Santos (Federico D'Elía) will return to “logistics and planning”, Emilio Ravena (Diego Peretti) of “characterization”, Gabriel Medina ( Martín Seefeld) of “research” and Pablo Lampone (Alejandro Fiore) on “technique and mobility” to deal, after 24 episodes of the original series, with seemingly solving problems insoluble by “mock operatives” originals, as they call it.

Nothing is alien to the talent of Los Simuladores: convincing someone that the man they want to separate from is the non plus ultra, getting the owners of an overvalued property to sell it at the right price, getting someone to sign up for a fake reality show in the jungle or getting a corrupt mayor to return the money from a bribe. In all cases, they carry out a thorough analysis of the problem in order to generate solutions that combine theater and psychology, as well as law and statistics.

Damián Szifron (Wild Tales), creator of the series, will be in charge of the production and direction of the film, which will be released 20 years after the final broadcast of this title in his home country. “I am thrilled by the reconnection with such beloved characters, with the old fellow travellers who return to play them and with an audience so affectionate and respectful that it already includes several generations,” he said.

He added: “Hopefully we can offer a film that retains the freshness of the original series, incorporates the maturity of the accumulated experience and expresses some valuable idea with the power, beauty and cinematic quality that the opportunity deserves.”

The story of this strange quartet of fixers began on March 21, 2002 on the Argentinian channel Telefé: the partners became a kind of anonymous vigilante (in the last episode Santos spoke of him and his partners as “a parallel justice group”) who, at the border of the law, and often crossing it, with equal quotas of grace and political incorrectness, function as an agency of desperate causes.

The film derived from this series, which won the most important Argentine television award seven times, Martín Fierro, will be produced by VIS (a division of Paramount that creates content for the Paramount+ platform) and K&S Films (who already worked with Szifron on Wild Tales, and also produced El clan y Tiempo of brave)

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