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Werner Herzog will create a Ford utopia

Image German director Werner Herzog knows firsthand what it means to shoot in the Amazon forests, and therefore his choice for a series, which will unfold in the jungle, seems quite justified. According to the portal Deadline, Herzog will lead the filming of a television drama called Fordlandia.

The rights to film the eponymous work of Greg Grandin, written in the genre of non-fiction, were acquired by the production company Ashoka Amritraj ("99 houses"). In 2010, the book became a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and is now being adapted by Oscar-nominated Christopher Wilkinson (The Man Who Changed Everything).

The original work tells how, in the 1920s, car industrialist Henry Ford got the idea to create a utopian city in the Brazilian jungle, which would later bear his name. Such an undertaking was aimed not only at achieving entrepreneurial goals (Ford wanted to produce rubber himself), but also social ones - the richest man in the world dreamed of building the city of the American Dream in the jungle.

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Werner Herzog won the Cannes Film Festival award for directing Fitzcarraldo, a film about an adventure in the Amazon forest. The director's latest feature films, Queen of the Desert and Salt and Fire, have not enjoyed success, unlike the documentary Oh, Internet! Dreams of the Digital World ", which has earned a lot of positive reviews.

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