Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s new film is headed to Netflix. The four-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker will release Bardo, Chronicle of a Handful of Truths on the streaming platform and in theaters at the end of 2022.
Bardo is the first film Iñárritu has released since 2015’s epic revenge picture The Revenant, which landed him his second Oscar win for Best Director and Leonardo DiCaprio’s first Oscar for Best Actor.
According to Deadline, Bardo is currently in post-production and will be completed by the fall. The film stars actor Daniel Giménez Cacho (Who Killed Sara?) as a Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker going through an existential crisis.
“Alejandro is one of the greatest modern filmmakers and one of the leading visionaries in our industry,” Scott Stuber, Netflix Head of Global Film, told Deadline. “Bardo is a cinematic experience that has inspired us to create a release strategy designed for the film to penetrate culture in the biggest and widest way. We will give film lovers everywhere the opportunity to experience the film through a global theatrical release and the film’s worldwide release on Netflix. Having known Alejandro for a long time, I am personally very excited to finally be able to work alongside him and to bring his film to a global audience.”
Iñárritu earned his first pair of Oscar nominations for directing and producing the 2006 film Babel. He took home three Oscars for writing, directing, and producing 2015’s Birdman. He became only the third person in Oscar history to win a consecutive Oscar for directing with The Revenant the following year.
Iñárritu was also awarded a rare Special Achievement Oscar in 2017 for creating a virtual reality installation called Carne y Arena. It was the first special Oscar awarded since Toy Story received one in 1996 (because there was no Best Animated Film category at the time).