Beyond purely original content or fiction “on loan” what’s in your catalog, Netflix understands perfectly in which other projects you have to invest to obtain intellectual property that will provide future franchise revenue. Thus, after the success of Daggers in the back“the big red N” offered Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig the enormous sum of 450 million dollars for two other parts of the saga, signed under his seal. This was perhaps the first major international example, although in our country we are also very aware of the phenomenon of Theft of money. But there you go, it’s another Spanish thriller which has just received a highly anticipated second part which took much longer than expected to reach the content lineup of the company founded by Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings.
We are talking about hole 2the sequel to the 2019 film which was a viral event within the streaming giant, despite a poor reception at the Spanish box office. The pandemic period has led to a considerable increase consumption of the video on demand marketallowing easy access to revolutionary fiction that is extremely original in its proposal. the hole swept away Sitges Festivalwinning considerations for best film, new direction, audience award and merits for its special effects, also obtaining this last award at the Goya Awards 2020 After charming the audience with the proposals of. Galder Gaztelu-UrrutiaNetflix commissioned the filmmaker and his team to produce a sequel to this Spanish dystopian thriller about solidarity and social classes. Five years later, the sequel attempts to expand the universe, through new protagonists, by proposing a plot even more tense and wild of what was its predecessor at the time.
A Spanish thriller like few others
To the previous material written by himself Pedro Rivero and David Desolais joined on this occasion by Egoitz Moreno and Gaztelu-Urrutia himself to continue this survival experience with a high dose of cruelty and gore cinema. To achieve this, the film surrounded itself with the most recognizable faces of our cinema. On the one hand, we have Milena Smithwho has already collaborated with Netflix on the adaptation of The Snow Maiden (its sequel is currently in preparation). On the other hand, Hovik Keuchkerianbecame famous thanks to the magnificent riot police and that in recent years he has participated in Spanish series widely received in streaming, such as Theft of money either red queen.
The uniqueness of both the hole As with this expansion, they start from a mysterious premise that feeds (pun intended) on the designs of their scenario, promising a search for answers that never really arrives, no matter how much its creator assures that the necessity of said Solutions to the plot are wrongly raised by viewers. The casting, in a secondary way, again presents some figures from the first opus, such as the protagonist Iván Massagué, Antonia San Juan or Zorion Eguileor. They complete the cast Natalia Tena (Game of Thrones), Oscar Jaenada (November), Pedro Bachura (Venus), Bastien Ughetto (The collapse), Ken Appledorn (At the end) And Hoji Fortune (Banzo). But what’s next for this Spanish thriller that so many people have decided to watch in the few days since it’s been available on the platform?
“The Hole 2”: synopsis
In the first film, we were introduced to the prison facility known as the Hole. A “vertical self-management center” in which several criminals served their sentences, while others volunteered within a short period of time to obtain recognition. In the case of the previous protagonist, it was a diploma. In this place, food is distributed through a platform that travels up and down, through an unknown number of levels. Those on the lower floors, they can only eat what those on the upper level leave without being able to preserve any type of food. Each month, cellmates are randomly reassigned on a new floor.
In hole 2a mysterious ruler appears in prison, imposing a brutal system of control over food resources, where eating the wrong dish could mean the end of life. In this new chaos, a new resident takes control of the system and joins against the horrible and cruel method of survival established by the elites. Available on Netflix from last October 4 and lasting a little over an hour and a half, hole 2 is one of the films that will surely become a phenomenon of save views in the coming weeks.
