Netflix Lines Up Pablo Larraín Miniseries

Netflix has begun production on My Sad Dead (Mis muertos tristes), a new miniseries directed by Pablo Larraín (Jackie, Spencer, Maria).

The series will feature four horror episodes based on My Sad Dead from Argentinean author Mariana Enríquez, borrowing from passages and characters from her other works Julie, A Sunny Place for Shady People and Back When We Talked to the Dead as well.

The series will center on Ema, a 60-year-old doctor who 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. When her niece Julie, a disturbed young woman who can also communicate with the dead but in a much more 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.

The cast will feature Mercedes Morán, Dolores Fonzi, Alejandra Flechner, Carlos Portaluppi, Germán de Silva, Luz Jiménez and Carolina Sánchez Álvarez.

Filming is set to begin at the end of June in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Santiago, Chile.

“Mariana’s writing is particularly visual, always brilliant and always dangerous,” Larraín said. “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.”

Enríquez commented, “I am very happy that Pablo Larraín and Fabula are giving me the honor of adapting my stories into a single miniseries. I personally enjoy adaptations; I think they are readings, and I also have high expectations for this reading of My Sad Dead. The entire process was very calm and respectful, and the fact that it’s being released on a platform with the reach that Netflix has is breathtaking, along with the satisfaction of producing locally in Latin America.”

“Our growing commitment to the best Argentinean stories takes on added meaning with the addition of one of Latin America’s most important directors behind this new project,” said Francisco Ramos, VP of Latin American content at Netflix. “Working with Pablo Larraín to bring Mariana Enríquez’s stories to the screen seemed like a natural fit.”