“National Geographic Documentary Films Has Acquired the World Streaming Rights to Werner Herzog’s New Feature-Lelth Docmentary Ghost Elephants, WHICH HAD ITS WORLD PREMIEERE Wednesday. The Doc Will Go Out on Disney+ and Hulu. Herzog Wrote, Directed and Narrates of the Documentary, in Whoth He Follows Conservation Biologist Steve Boyes, In In”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Herzog Wrote, Directed and Narrates of the Documentary, in Whoth He Follows Conservation Biologist Steve Boyes Highlands of Angola.
“After Meeting Steve Boyes, an UNEXPICTED PROJECT THERE FELT LIKE The Hunt for Moby Dick, The White While, Came at Me with Great Urgency,“ Herzog Said in A Statement. “Like Many of My Films, This is An Exploration of Dreams, Of Imagination – Weighed Against Reality. The Film Took Me to What the Local Tribesmen Call the Land at the End of the Earth.”
Herzog has built Much of his career around Portraits of ObSESSIVE, DRIVEN FIGES WHOSE AMBITIONS PUSH TheM TO THE EDGE OF MADESESS OR transcendence. From klaus Kinski’s Mad Conquistador in Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), Who Drags His Men Ever Dearer Into the Jungle in A Delusional Quest for El Dorado, or The Rubber Baron In Fitzcarraldo (1982), Who Dreams of Hauling A Steamship Over A Mountain to Build An Opera House in the Amazon, to Documentaries Such As Grizzly Man (2005), About Timothy Treadwell’s Fatal Devotion to Living Among Wild Bears in Alaska, and and Encounters at the end of the World (2007), WHICH Follows Scientists, Divers, and Dreamers Whose Obsenses Carry Them to the MOST INHOSPITABLE PLACE ON Earth.
Ghost Elephants Premiered Out of Competition at the Venice Film Festival On Wednesday and Will Have Its Premiere at Telluride. Herzog Received a Lifetime Achievement Golden Lion in Venice On Wednesday Night. Italian-Emerican Cinema Icon Francis Ford Coppola Presiented Him with The Honor.
“IT’s not -eneugh to praise werner Herzog. One Must Celebrate the fact that someone Like Him Can Actual Exist,” Said Coppola in His laudatio.
Ghost Elephants Will Stream on Disney+ and Hulu in 2026.