Chief International Correspondent

Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia's long-awaited film “The Platform 2”, the Basque director's sequel to the Netflix mega-hit “The Platform”, will have its world premiere at the San Sebastián Film Festival in September, closing the culinary section.

The subject of a high-profile acquisition by Netflix at the 2019 Toronto Film Festival, co-created by CAA Media Finance, XYZ Films and Latido Films, “The Platform” has rocketed to the top of Netflix’s list of foreign-language hits in record time, now at No. 5 with 82.8 million views, thanks to its terrifying blend of futuristic dystopian sci-fi and fragrant social allegory wrapped in a brutal survival thriller. That’s because of the setup: a vertical prison, hundreds of floors high, with a brick freight elevator descending each day, loaded with food scavenged from the tenants above. Prisoners on higher levels gorge themselves; those below face starvation, suicide or cannibalism.

That structure appears to remain in place in "The Platform 2," which hits Netflix on Oct. 4. However, the film features new characters played by Milena Smit ("The Snow Girl") and Hovik Keuchkerian ("Money Heist"), who star alongside Natalia Tena ("Game of Thrones") and Óscar Jaenada ("Luis Miguel: The Series").