After a profession spanning greater than 5 many years, acclaimed German filmmaker Werner Herzog is lastly dipping his toes into animation. Herzog is probably greatest recognized for his many documentaries, together with Grizzly Man, in addition to characteristic movies like 1979’s Nosferatu the Vampyre. He is additionally no stranger to stepping in entrance of the digital camera, having had roles in The Mandalorian and Jack Reacher.
Per Selection, Herzog will make his animation debut with The Twilight World, a characteristic primarily based on his best-selling novel of the identical identify that was first printed in German in 2021, and translated into English in 2022. Solar Creature Studio, the identical firm being the Oscar-nominated animated movie Flee, will work to deliver The Twilight World to life, whereas celebrated animation studio Psyop can even function a co-producer on the film.
Narrated by Herzog himself, The Twilight World tells the true story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese intelligence officer who refused to consider that World Conflict II was over, and continued to battle a private, fictitious warfare within the jungles of the Philippines for thirty years. “I all the time felt that Hiroo Onoda’s story, having spanned nearly 30 years of fever goals within the jungle, was greatest fitted to literature, not cinema—which is why I selected to inform it via a novel,” Herzog stated in an announcement launched right this moment, including:
“It wasn’t till the producers at Psyop approached me about adapting Onoda’s story into an animated movie that I spotted the potential that animation needed to inform this story in a very compelling and imaginative method.”
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Werner Herzog
- Birthname
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Werner H. Stipetic
- Birthdate
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September 5, 1942
- Birthplace
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Munich, Germany
Bio
Werner Herzog Stipeti born 5 September 1942 generally known as Werner Herzog is a German movie director producer screenwriter actor and opera director He’s usually thought of as one of many best figures of the New German Cinema together with Rainer Werner Fassbinder Margarethe von Trotta Volker Schl ndorff Werner Schr ter and Wim Wenders His movies usually characteristic heroes with unimaginable goals folks with distinctive abilities in obscure fields or people who discover themselves in battle with nature French filmmaker Fran ois Truffaut as soon as known as Herzog crucial movie director alive
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