By my reckoning, Werner Herzog became the first feature director to have shot films on all seven continents when he made it to Antarctica in 2009 for Encounters at the End of the World. He’s back there again, and to nearly every other continent as well, for his latest documentary, Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds, a consideration of what will happen when (as the director considers inevitable) Earth is struck by a giant meteor the likes of which wiped out the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago. Despite its heavy, apocalyptic concerns, the new film is relatively lightweight by Herzog’s standards, as it’s basically a series of chats with scientists and specialists laying out the history of asteroids smacking the planet and speculating about future collisions and they would mean for the world. Apple TV+ has acquired broadcast rights.
By the director’s vaunted and idiosyncratic standards, Fireball is relatively conventional,...
By the director’s vaunted and idiosyncratic standards, Fireball is relatively conventional,...
- 9/17/2020
- by Todd McCarthy
- Deadline Film + TV
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