After beginning filming in Argentina, the project has now moved to Uruguay to continue its development, marking the first of several productions that K&S Films plans to produce in the country.
Announced in mid-2025, Netflix continues production on one of its most ambitious projects in Latin America: the original series El futuro es nuestro, which brings together a talented team from the region, both in front of and behind the camera.
It is an eight-episode dystopian miniseries based on the novel The World Jones Made by renowned American writer Philip K. Dick, and is the first audiovisual adaptation of one of the author’s works in Spanish.
With director and screenwriter Mateo Gil (Pedro Páramo, The Favorites of Midas) as showrunner, the series is directed by Brazilian directors Vicente Amorim (Senna) and Daniel Rezende (The Son of a Thousand Men), and Argentinian director Jesús Braceras (Barrabrava).
The production is handled by K&S Films (El Eternauta) and Electric Shepherd Productions (The Man in the High Castle), the production company behind the Philip K. Dick estate.
This Monday, May 4th, the Argentinian production company, represented by Diego Copello and Matías Mosteirin, was present in Montevideo, Uruguay, alongside government officials, to announce the production of part of the ambitious project in the country.
“The project began filming in Argentina, with approximately 140 days of shooting, of which we have already completed 110, leaving about 27 days to be filmed here in Uruguay,” commented Mosteirin. “It is a project of unprecedented scale in the region, both in terms of budget and logistics.” We are the producers of El Eternauta, we know how to produce complex projects, and this one is even more so. The difference is that it takes place in a dystopian future, in 2047, in a Latin America that has undergone political and economic reorganization. It’s a project that unfolds in a regional context where different countries intertwine, and Netflix is betting on a project with a regional character.”
According to the production company, filming will take place over 27 days in Uruguay between May and June, with more than 25 locations, including the Old City, Plaza Independencia -which will be the main set- as well as Peñarol, Melilla, and Parque Lecocq.
To bring El futuro es nuestro to life, some of the most renowned technicians and artists in Latin America have been assembled, including: directors of photography Adrián Teijido (Ainda Estou Aqui) and Luis Sansans (Narcos, Narcos: Mexico); production designers Carlos and Jacques (Pedro Páramo); and art director Julián Romera (El Eternauta). Producers Micky Buye, Matías Mosteirín, Diego Copello, Emiliano Torres, and Analía Castro (responsible for El Eternauta, among other Argentine productions), with Isa Dick Hackett, the author’s daughter, also serving as executive producer. And with a team of screenwriters led by Mateo Gil, including Laura Santullo, Camila Brugés Gómez (One Hundred Years of Solitude), and Kyzza Terrazas.
All of them, along with an ensemble cast of Latin American actors and actresses headed by Enzo Vogrincic (Society of the Snow), Emiliano Zurita (Nobody Saw Us Leave), Delfina Chaves (Máxima), Marleyda Soto (One Hundred Years of Solitude), and Marco Antonio Caponi (Iosi), among many others, will bring this story to life.
“The possibility of combining locations and everything Uruguay offered us convinced us to develop a critical part of the project here,” he continued. “We’ve been working on this for over a year, and it’s the first project to launch K&S’s operations in Uruguay.”
The executive revealed that after El futuro es nuestro, the production company will develop other titles in the country.
“This year we’ll be filming another project in Uruguay starting in August, and we’re developing several more for later. Why Uruguay? Because of the locations, the professional capacity… it’s a market and an industry that is an example of development and growth based on public policies.”
El futuro es nuestro is scheduled to premiere on Netflix in the second half of 2027.
Synopsis:
Year 2047. Ecological collapse has led to the creation of FedSur, a coalition of South American countries that implements extreme measures to protect nature and combat the prevailing hunger and violence.
A new and captivating voice then emerges on the internet, a voice far 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.
Predicting the fall of FedSur and victory over climate change, Jonás will inspire the Latin American people and convince many to join his reactionary revolution. Meanwhile, Crussi, hunted as a member of the resistance, will embark on a suicide mission to eliminate the tyrant, who will have foreseen the assassination and will be waiting for him.
