Discovery Picks Up Werner Herzog Interstellar Doc

Discovery has acquired Last Exit: Space, a new documentary exploring mankind’s push to colonize space from filmmaker Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Encounters at the End of the World, Into the Inferno, Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds).

Werner Herzog is set to narrate and executive produce the documentary, while his son Rudolph Herzog (How to Fake a War, The Heist) will direct. Gunpowder & Sky, Spring Films and Taglicht Media are signed on to co-produce the feature, which will stream later this year on discovery+.

Last Exit: Space will take audiences on a voyage across Earth and out into the stars and beyond. With more than 7 billion humans on the planet and resources dwindling, the film seeks to answer if one of the 100 billion planets in the Milky Way could be humans’ future home.

Rudolph Herzog said: “Mankind’s quest to become space colonists has always been a fascination—the cutting-edge technology it requires, and the geniuses, dreamers and mavericks who lead this ambition. Last Exit is a brand-new creative collaboration for my father and me, and we are thrilled to be doing it with such forward-thinking partners.”

Lisa Holme, group senior VP of content and commercial strategy at Discovery, said: “We are honored to work with Werner and Rudolph Herzog, who are uniquely suited to tell a story of such grand ambition and scale. With Discovery’s strong history of creative leadership for stories covering exploration, space and science, discovery+ is the perfect streaming home for Last Exit: Space.”

Floris Bauer, president of Gunpowder & Sky, said: “We’re always looking for bold stories from fearless storytellers. So you can only imagine how fired up we are to partner with the incomparable Herzogs on a project that explores some of humanity’s greatest questions.”