{"id":186476,"date":"2025-08-30T05:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T05:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/186476\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T05:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T05:15:10","slug":"werner-herzog-doc-ghost-elephants-sells-to-national-geographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/186476\/","title":{"rendered":"Werner Herzog Doc ‘Ghost Elephants’ Sells to National Geographic"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNational Geographic<\/a> Documentary Films has acquired the world streaming rights to Werner Herzog<\/a>\u2018s new feature-length documentary Ghost Elephants<\/a>, which had its world premiere<\/a> at the Venice film festival on Wednesday. The doc will go out on Disney+ and Hulu.<\/p>\n

\n\tHerzog wrote, directed and narrates the documentary, in which he follows conservation biologist Steve Boyes, in his search to prove the existence of the mysterious, perhaps mythical, herd of ghost elephants in the highlands of Angola.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAfter meeting Steve Boyes, an unexpected project that felt like the hunt for Moby Dick, the White Whale, came at me with great urgency,\u201d Herzog said in a statement. \u201cLike many of my films, this is an exploration of dreams, of imagination \u2014 weighed against reality. The film took me to what the local tribesmen call the Land at the End of the Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGhost Elephants was financed by Sobey Road Entertainment. Ariel Le\u00f3n Isacovitch produced, with Brian Nugent and Andrew Trapani of Sobey acting as executive producers alongside Emerson Farrell, David Sze, and David B. Kirk.<\/p>\n

\n\tHerzog has built much of his career around portraits of obsessive, driven figures whose ambitions push them to the edge of madness or transcendence. From Klaus Kinski\u2019s mad conquistador in Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), who drags his men ever deeper 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 <\/a>(2005), about Timothy Treadwell\u2019s fatal devotion to living among wild bears in Alaska, and Encounters at the End of the World (2007), which follows scientists, divers, and dreamers whose obsessions carry them to the most inhospitable place on earth.<\/p>\n

\n\tGhost Elephants premiered out of competition at the Venice film festival on Wednesday and will have its U.S. premiere at Telluride. Herzog received a lifetime achievement Golden Lion in Venice on Wednesday night. Italian-American cinema icon Francis Ford Coppola presented him with the honor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s not enough to praise Werner Herzog. One must celebrate the fact that someone like him can actually exist,\u201d said Coppola in his laudatio.<\/p>\n

\n\tGhost Elephants will stream on Disney+ and Hulu in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National Geographic Documentary Films has acquired the world streaming rights to Werner Herzog\u2018s new feature-length documentary Ghost Elephants,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":186477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,104487,1801,53,39439,67,132,68,101337,31074,104488],"class_list":{"0":"post-186476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ghost-elephants","10":"tag-international","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-national-geographic","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-venice-2025","17":"tag-venice-film-festival-2025","18":"tag-werner-herzog"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115116017101212868","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}