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Darren Aronofsky may be preparing to debut his buzzy crime novel adaptation “Caught Stealing” with Austin Butler, but the auteur also has produced another film based on a book coming soon: documentary “Underland.” The film, which will premiere at Tribeca 2025, brings author Robert Macfarlane’s nature book of the same name to the big screen.

“Underland” is billed as a “cinematic documentary that voyages into worlds rarely glimpsed by human eyes,” mostly involving underground geological phenomenons. The logline reads: “Beginning in the shallow soils beneath an old ash tree, we travel alongside several ‘astronauts of the underworld’ into ancient sacred caves, flooded storm drains, melting glaciers, underwater burial chambers and a deep underground laboratory built to solve the mysteries of the Universe. … We know so little of the world beneath our feet. To most it is a place only of fear and darkness, though to a brave few it is...

Documentary includes interviews with Christian Bale, Chloe Zhao, Robert Pattinson, Nicole Kidman.

MetFilm Sales has secured key deals on Thomas von Steinaecker’s Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer.

The documentary about the enigmatic German filmmaker has sold to the UK (BFI Distribution), Scandinavia and Baltics (Nonstop Entertainment), Italy (I Wonder), Benelux (Eye Film), Poland (Against Gravity) and Spain (Movistar). Zdf was previously confirmed to release in France and Germany.

Offering an insight into Herzog’s everyday life, the film includes archive material and interviews with collaborators including Christian Bale, Chloe Zhao, Robert Pattinson and Nicole Kidman. It premiered at Telluride last year,...

U.K.-based MetFilm Sales has acquired worldwide sales rights, excluding the U.S., Germany and France, to Thomas von Steinaecker’s feature documentary “Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer” and is representing the project at Berlin’s European Film Market.

With exclusive behind-the-scenes access into the legendary German film director’s everyday life, rare archive material and in-depth interviews with Herzog and his collaborators — including Christian Bale, Nicole Kidman and his wife Lena Herzog — the film provides a glimpse into his work process and his personal life.

The documentary is presented by Emmy-winning film studio Wavelength, produced by Spring Films and 3B-Produktion in association with Hot Docs Partners. It is produced by Andre Singer, Bernhard Von Hulsen and Maria Willer. Executive producers include Jenifer Westphal and Joe Plummer for Wavelength, Figs Jackman and Chris Smith for Spring Films and Vijay Vaidyanathan.

The film had its world premiere at Telluride and has...

The Wavelength title debuted at Telluride.

UK-based sales firm MetFilm Sales has acquired worldwide sales rights excluding US, Germany and France to Thomas von Steinaecker’s documentary Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer.

The German-uk co-production had its world premiere at Telluride Film Festival in September, before going on to play Cologne, IDFA, Cork and Santa Barbara film festivals.

Radical Dreamer combines archive material and interviews with both German director Herzog, and collaborators including Christian Bale, Nicole Kidman and Werner’s wife Lena Herzog.

It is presented by US studio Wavelength, and produced by the UK’s Spring Films and Germany’s...

Ever-intrepid filmmaker Werner Herzog is gearing up for his next wide-ranging cinematic exploration of the universe. Variety reports that the “Grizzly Man” and “Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World” documentarian has set his sights on “Fireball,” a feature-length documentary about “meteorites and comets and their influence on mythology and religion.” Production on the film is already under way.

Herzog will co-direct the film alongside geoscientist Prof. Clive Oppenheimer; the duo previously collaborated on the Emmy-nominated 2016 Netflix documentary “Into the Inferno.” That film followed the pair as they traveled the world to explore various volcanic sites. Much like “Fireball,” that film also drew connections between natural phenomena and its impact on humankind.

Variety adds that “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.

Werner Herzog is making “Fireball,” a feature documentary about meteorites and comets and their influence on mythology and religion. Production is underway, and international buyers will get a first look at the Mipcom market in Cannes next week.

“Fireball” reunites the legendary filmmaker with Prof. Clive Oppenheimer. Herzog and geoscientist Oppenheimer previously collaborated on the Emmy-nominated feature documentary “Into the Inferno” for Netflix. That expeditionary film saw the pair travel the globe to visit volcanic sites and explore their impact on humankind.

The producers of “Into the Inferno,” Andre Singer and Lucki Stipetic, are both on board “Fireball.” Herzog and Oppenheimer will co-direct. 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.

Factual producer Spring Films is making “Fireball” with Herzog’s own shingle, Wefjarner Herzog Filmproduktion.