After taking some time away from documentary filmmaking to marvel at the cinematic achievement that is Baby Yoda, Werner Herzog is ready to get back behind the camera. The Oscar-nominated filmmaker will be teaming up with AppleTV+ and professor Clive Oppenheimer on astronomy documentary “Fireball.”
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Apple announced Friday that it will release “Fireball” on its AppleTV+ streaming platform. Per Apple, the documentary takes viewers on a journey to explore how shooting stars, meteorites and deep impacts have shaped human mythology and focused human imagination on other reals and worlds, and on our own past and our future. The documentary hails from Spring Films and Werner Herzog Film, and will be produced by André Singer and Lucki Stipetić, while Richard Melman executive produces. The documentary is being made with the support of Sandbox Films.
Herzog has already collaborated with Oppenheimer on the Oscar-nominated documentary “Encounters at the End of the World” focused on Antarctica, and again for the Netflix doc “Into the Inferno” which was nominated for an Emmy and focused on various volcanic sites. That film, much like “Fireball” will do, explored the connection between natural phenomena and mankind’s history.
When the project was first announced in 2018, Variety described it as having a similar style as “Into the Inferno,” saying: “They will once more go globe-trotting, this time to visit sites that yield insight into comets and meteorites and help them understand what they can tell us about the origins of life on Earth.”
“Fireball” joins Apple Original’s slate of documentaries, including “The Elephant Queen,” “Visible: Out on Television,” “Boys State,” and “Beastie Boys Story.”