2/10/2015

Werner Herzog to Direct Volcano Disaster Film 'Salt and Fire'


Werner Herzog's latest film, Queen of the Desert, hasn't been getting treated so well at the Berlin Film Festival. In fact it's gotten savaged pretty badly despite a cast that features Robert Pattinson, Nicole Kidman, and James Franco. Not that it matters to Herzog, who is already looking forward to his next film, which will have something to do with volcanoes, apparently.

According to Screen Daily, Herzog will take to the air and fly to the Bolivian salt flats to film Salt and Fire, a romantic thriller starring German actress Veronica Ferres (Hector and the Search for Happiness). In what actually sounds like a Roland Emmerich-style disaster flick, the story centers on a scientist who clashes with the head of a corporation responsible for an ecological disaster, only to team up with her nemesis to prevent the eruption of a supervolcano that could become a global catastrophe.

With Herzog at the helm it's doubtful this will be a straight up action movie, but then predicting what the director will do is probably foolish.