KRYPTONITA

Burnt-out and pill-popping doctor Gonzalez does the graveyard shift at a dilapidated emergency ward in Buenos Aires’ worst neighborhood. The radio is talking about the latest feat of the notorious Super Gasoline Gang. They’ve robbed a bank and given all the loot to a soup kitchen. Corrupt cop Ventura wheels in a wounded petty thief and urges Gonzalez to let him die. Not that he has to insist. It’s been a while since the doctor has saved a patient. But the next one on his operating table will change his life forever. The Super Gasoline Gang burst into the emergency room with their mortally wounded leader Pinino. He has some green glass in his chest, about the only thing that can hurt him on this planet. Gonzalez has until dawn to save him, otherwise… Meanwhile the police have surrounded the hospital and it doesn’t take long before the arch nemesis’s of the gang arrive on the scene for a final showdown.

What if Superman, Batman, The Joker, The Flash, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and other heroes of the DC Universe would fight it out in the ER of a crime ridden neighborhood? That was the question Argentine writer Leonardo Oyola answered in his cult novel Kryptonita. Screenwriter (Necrophobia, Memory of the Dead) and director (Diablo, La H) Nicanor Loreti has transformed this inventive mash-up into a spunky, feisty and highly entertaining B-movie. The film has already achieved cult status in Argentina and a TV-series is in the works!