The long-awaited film version of cult Argentine TV series Los simuladores has been postponed due to production delays and the country’s “rather chaotic cultural policies,” actor Diego Peretti revealed on Monday. “We had promised to film in 2024 and premiere in 2025, but I don’t think we’ll be able to keep that promise,” Peretti said on Radio 10. In an interview, Peretti attributed the halt in production to the “complicated political situation” and “rather chaotic” cultural policies in Argentina, as well as “a certain crisis within streaming platforms [.
..] there’s a sort of stagnation that caused the production of the film to start to crumble.
” Premiered in 2002, Los simuladores was a hit TV show created by Damián Szifron that ran for two seasons. It featured Peretti, Federico D’Elía, Martín Seefeld and Alejandro Fiore as the Simuladores (Simulators), a group of men who orchestrate elaborate real-life situations to help out strangers in need by deceiving or influencing the people causing their problems. In the aftermath of Argentina’s 2001 social and economic crisis, the show about people in dire need finding solutions to their problems became a big hit.
The simulators’ clients were mostly regular people, including a loan shark’s victim and a supermarket owner neglected by his insurance company. The group’s overall goal was always to serve justice wherever legal routes proved ineffective. According to a source close to the movie pro.