written by Oesterheld (the first part, its remake and the second part) were contemporaneous with the de facto governments of Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, Juan Carlos Onganía and the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional, respectively. It has also been noted that, except for the "Ellos", none of the invaders is truly evil; they are noble beings forced to carry out the orders of others. Critics believe Oesterheld was conceptually attacking the Dirty War or writing an allegory of class struggle. Adaptation Directors such as Adolfo Aristarain, Fernando Solanas or Gustavo Mosquera expressed interest in a film adaptation, but could not manage reasonable production costs. In 2008, under supervision by Elsa Oesterheld, the writer's widow, an Italian production company worked on a film adaptation of the original comic. The story would be set in Buenos Aires and the possibility of co-producing the film with INCAA was discussed. Lucrecia Martel was reported as slated to direct the film and said that production was already past the "embryonic stages." In 2009, however, Martel was dropped due to conceptual differences with the producers. On September 4, 2017, on the 60th anniversary of the comic's release, a group of independent artists from Argentina presented an animated short film called “60 seconds of darkness”, an adaptation of a small fragment of the original comic. In February 2020, it was announced that The Eternaut would be adapted into a TV series for Netflix. The series will be directed by Bruno Stagnaro and will be contextualized in the present. References External links Historia de El Eternauta - Historieteca Official site Hector Oesterheld's The Eternaut translated synopsis Translated into English (excerpt) 1957 comics debuts 1959 comics endings Alien invasions in comics Argentine comic strips Argentine comics titles Comics about time travel Comics by Héctor Germán Oesterheld Comics characters introduced in 1957 Drama comics Eisner Award winners Fantagraphics titles Fictional Argentine people Science fiction comics