28/08/2023 - Milena Smit and Hovik Keuchkerian topline the dystopian suspense film again directed by Basque helmer Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia; Basque Films is producing once more for Netflix

“Do you think you can bring justice to the hell of The Platform? And if you try, who’s going to enforce it?” This is the succinct synopsis that Netflix has offered up for The Platform 2, the eagerly awaited sequel (shot last spring in a studio in Bilbao, where the crew reproduced a similar structure to the setting we’re already familiar with; the feature is now in post-production) to The Platform [+see also:
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While the first time around, it was Iván Massagué, Antonia San Juan and Zorion Eguileor who starred in the lead roles, the second film is toplined by Alicante-born actress Milena Smit (who shot to fame in Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers [+see also:
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“We filmed this sequel with the hope and the will to extend the The Platform universe by means of a storyline chock-full of surprises, hurdles, new characters… and old friends. We want this second instalment to be an exciting physical journey that will allow us to venture further into the darkness, that place into which we are afraid to look,” remarked the Basque filmmaker, who is still waiting to release Rich Flu, another dystopian tale, this time co-produced with Chile, and starring Lorraine Bracco, Timothy Spall and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. 

Like the first instalment in the saga, The Platform 2 is being produced by Carlos Juárez, Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia himself and Raquel Perea, of Basque Films, for Netflix.

(Translated from Spanish)