Fede Álvarez writes and directs horror series for Apple TV+: watch trailer

Uruguayan Fede Álvarez will direct the new series for the Apple TV+ streaming platform: it will be called Calls and is based on a French animated series of the same name.

Presented as "an innovative television experience", the horror series will work on audio elements and abstract images and will tell short stories that promise to be chilling. There will be nine episodes in total and will premiere on March 19.

"I wrote and directed a pretty good show for Apple TV+," the Uruguayan had announced on his social networks. "Believe me when I tell you that you have never seen anything like this? Never," he advanced.

Apple TV+ on Wednesday released the trailer for the series, which, as the title implies, is based on telephone conversations. The cast includes a number of well-known figures such as Lily Collins, Rosario Dawson, Pedro Pascal, Aubrey Plaza, Nick Jonas and Aaron Taylor-Johnson.

According to the platform, "Calls proves that true terror lies in one's interpretation of what you can't see on screen and the unsettling places your imagination can take you."

This will be the first series entirely directed by Álvarez, who in television format was already in charge of an episode of From Dusk till Dawn: The Series. The Uruguayan has developed a prestigious career in cinema, with Don't Breathe as a major milestone and other titles such as Infernal Possession or The Girl in the Spider's Web, based on What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger, the fourth installment of the Millenium literary saga.

Among his future projects are 16 States, a zombie film; the sequel to Don't Breathe, to be directed by his partner Rodo Sayagués; a horror thriller that he defined at the time as "The Shining in the White House" and he will produce the next Texas Chainsaw film, among others.

It had been announced that he would make the sequel to Labyrinth, starring David Bowie, but in the end he dropped out of the project. "I felt that, when people have a preconceived notion of what something should be, it's very hard to succeed, to surprise them. They just expect the same thing again. So I decided I didn't want to do things as a director the way people knew it would be," the filmmaker told The Boo Crew podcast.

Apple TV+ is not available in Uruguay.

Source: El País