2006’s Planet Earth, produced by the BBC, is unarguably one of the most badass nature documentaries of all time. And soon, thanks to Netflix, you’ll be able to watch even more intense, HD nature footage, and now with even greater access to powerful, quasi-legal marijuana. Today is a good day.
Netflix has announced Our Planet, a follow-up documentary series to the BBC’s seminal Planet Earth. Slated for a 2019 premiere and created in partnership with the World Wildlife Fund and Silverback Films, the eight-part Our Planet will use new technology and storytelling techniques to expand on the 11-episode series that originally aired in 2006.
Ouch, 2019? Okay, forget what I said about “soon.”
WWF will provide Silverback and Netflix access to the areas it currently protects. The filmmakers plan to use cutting-edge 4K technology and “a range of specially produced storytelling for multi-media platforms.” [EW]
I don’t feel like trying to parse that painfully vague PR speak, so I’m just going to focus on the idea of 4K footage of killer whales hunting seals and hippo fights and rainforest frogs buttf*cking while I do a bird-like mating dance around my living room. David Attenborough can narrate once he stops vomiting.
Also, just spitballing here, but what if we did a special edition where Werner Herzog narrates? “Our Merciless, Indifferent Planet,” they could call it.