Argentina ’s most famous alien - fighting superhero is set to asterisk in his own motion picture , directed by Lucrecia Martel ( whose The Woman Without A Head is appearing at Cannes right now ) . In El Eternauta , an alien invasion begins with a lethal snow that blankets Buenos Aires . The snowfall kills most of the city ’s residents , and our bomber , Juan Salvo , aka El Eternauta , go the few who remain against the invaders , going toe - to - toe with the aliens ’ US Army of jumbo worm . Eventually , Salvo is mutate and becomes a superhuman stranger - fighter . El Eternauta is based on a 1950s pictorial novel by Héctor Germán Oesterheld .
Here ’s a synopsis of theoriginal comedian :
An irregular “ snowfall ” in Argentina hail the start of an exotic invasion . The glowing “ snow ” proved to be deadly to terrestrial life story , kill everything it touched . The man who became make out as El Eternauta was inside a firm with his family and some protagonist , and thus hold out the initial attack . With food and other supplies running low , he go under off wearing a scuba courting to find help , and later began to protest the alien penetration . To begin with he was a normal human , but after on during his adventures he was mutated to become moderately superhuman . His adventures also go to take him further afield when he began to move around through clip and space . As he declared , he had hundreds of name , but the most accurate is El Eternauta – the man who travels through eternity .
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