‘Most Successful Form of Distribution’

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Werner Herzog has led a charmed life, from incessantly avoiding demise whereas making his singular movies to getting semi-randomly solid in popcorn fare like Jack Reacher (because the villain!) to persevering with an interview after being shot within the stomach by a stray BB gun. Also do not forget that time he popped up on Parks and Recreation? So we’ll see what his new bosses at Disney, who allowed him to be solid within the forthcoming Star Wars present The Mandalorian, need to say about his newest daring assertion, specifically that pirating films? To him it’s wonderful.

As per The Independent, the filmmaker/actor/madman — who nearly went loopy filming Fitzcarraldo within the Amazon Basin and as soon as rescued Joaquin Phoenix from a automobile accident — was talking on the Vision in Nyon movie pageant in Switzerland when Ukranian producer Illia Gladshtein talked about she was solely capable of finding his famous movies on unlawful obtain websites.

¨Piracy has been essentially the most profitable type of distribution worldwide,” Herzog responded. He clarified that he, after all, likes being paid, but when a movie of his will not be out there through correct channels, then, you realize, go along with God. “If someone like you steals my films through the internet or whatever, fine, you have my blessing.”