Netflix has announced The Future is Ours — a Latin American dystopian drama
Demonstrating their international credentials, Netflix has announced a limited series dystopian drama made in Latin America — The Future is Ours. We are often guilty of focus on english language shows and films, and it’s a welcome change to extend our horizons. Recent Argentinian show The Eternaut is a good example of why we should take a more global view of our entertainment.
What is The Future is Ours
Casual interest may be piqued by the fact the series is based on the novel The World Jones Made, by Philip K Dick. There have been a raft of memorable Dick adaptations, including Paycheck, Minority Report, Total Recall, and of course Bladerunner.
The series will be the first audiovisual adaptation of the author’s work in Spanish. With director and screenwriter Mateo Gil (Pedro Páramo, The Minions of Midas) as showrunner, the series will be directed by Brazilian directors Vicente Amorim (Senna) and Daniel Rezende (The Son of A Thousand Men), and Argentine Jesús Braceras (Barrabrava). It will be produced by K&S Films (The Eternaut) and Electric Shepherd Productions (The Man in the High Castle), the production arm of the Philip K Dick estate. It will be an eight episode limited series.
And the story
Year 2047. Ecological collapse has led to the creation of FedSur, a coalition of South American countries that applies extreme measures to protect nature and counteract the prevailing hunger and violence.
A new and captivating voice then emerges on the internet, a voice much more powerful than any other because it is capable of predicting the future. Police officer Hugo Crussí discovers that behind the voice is a young preacher named Jonás Flores, but his arrest causes him to become the spiritual leader of the continent overnight.
Forecasting the fall of FedSur and victory over climate change, Jonás will make the Latin American people dream and will get many to join his reactionary revolution. Meanwhile, Crussí, pursued as a member of the resistance, will embark on a suicidal mission to end the tyrant, who will have foreseen the assassination and will be waiting for him.
Who are the cast
The cast are Enzo Vogrincic, Emiliano Zurita, Delfina Chaves, Marleyda Soto, Fernán Mirás, Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers, Angela Rodríguez, Marco Antonio Caponi, María Gracia Omegna, Rallen Montenegro, Juan Palomino, Ilay Perales and Paloma Contreras. The photo above shows Emiliano Zurita (México), Delfina Chaves (Argentina), Enzo Vogrincic (Uruguay), Marleyda Soto (Colombia) and Marco Antonio Caponi (Argentina). (Credit: Alan Roskyn | Netflix).
We hope to bring you more news next year, and assume this might arrive late 2026. As ever, we’ll keep you informed.