The author of the saga, Manel Loureiro, completed the survival story with three novels. ‘Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End’ is just the first of them
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Almost 20 years have passed since the story was born as a simple blog entry, but Apocalypse Z It has just been released as one of Prime Video’s big bets on its own production in our country and has enough potential to become a complete saga that follows in the footsteps of other successful projects on the streaming platform.
The story of Manel and his cat Lúculo trying to survive in a Galicia infested with the undead as a result of a virus released by mistake. It began as a blog project by the Galician author Manel Loureiro in 2005 and, in just a couple of years, it had already become a true bestseller in our country. From the blog he moved on to the novel and this was followed by two equally captivating sequels that completed the story. Now, Amazon’s streaming platform has released the adaptation of the famous work in film form: a feature film written by Ángel Agudo based on Loureiro’s story and directed by Carles Torrens, which, starring Francisco Ortiz, Berta Vázquez and Jose María Yazpik, among others, has been available in the catalog since last October 31.
After a first weekend in the catalogue, Apocalypse Z: The beginning of the end It is the most viewed film on the platform worldwide, according to data provided by FlixPatrol. A good omen without a doubt for its potential sequel or sequels, which at the moment have not yet been made official by the company.
Will ‘Apocalypse Z’ have a sequel?
With two sequels published, The dark days y The wrath of the righteousthe story of Manel and company continues beyond the end of the film, when they manage to catch the helicopter but do not receive good news.
However, according to what Carles Torrens and the producer Nuria Valls told SensaCine In his interview on the occasion of the film’s premiere, Whether or not Prime Video decides to commission the production of the sequels will depend on the public’s reception.
However, if this were not the case, Torrens clarifies that the film has a beginning and an end, even if readers of Loureiro’s work know how the story continues: “For me, the film is a complete film in this sense. What happens is that then you have some characters that go through it, with whom you have an emotional attachment, but at the level of the global story, which is to tell how society reaches the brink of the Apocalypse, for me it is a closed film. No. “It’s not a post-apocalyptic or apocalyptic movie, it’s how you get there.”
