Will Smith, Darren Aronofsky, James Cameron & Jon Favreau Non-Fiction Series Lead Nat Geo’s Latest Disney+ Slate
07.02.2022 - 20:13
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Big-budget non-fiction series from Will Smith, Darren Aronofsky, Jon Favreau, James Cameron and David Blaine make up Nat Geo’s latest slate for Disney+.
The factual giant has ordered 12 new series as part of its latest streaming lineup.
Following Welcome To Earth and One Strange Rock, Smith is returning to Nat Geo with Pole to Pole, a series that will see the King Richard star cover 26,000 miles from the South Pole to the North Pole. It comes from Smith’s Westbrook Studios, Jane Root’s Nutopia and Aronofsky’s Protoza.
The company has set eight new natural history series: Great Migrations, Home, Lion, Secrets Of The Elephants, Secrets Of The Octopus, Sentient, Super/Natural and The Biggest Little Farm Series.
Jon Favreau-created Lion follows a a single pride for four years and will use cutting-edge technology to explore the challenges facing an entire species. The Iron Man director exec produces the series, which comes from BBC Studio’s Natural History Unit.
The Planet Earth producer is also behind Home, a portrait of life on Earth. The project will be produced over ten years and will feature nine seasons with the first three seasons already I production, filming across five oceans and seven continents.
Benedict Cumberbatch is narrating Super/Natural, which will look at the the secret powers and super-senses of the world’s most extraordinary animals – from seeing flowers in bee-vision to eavesdropping on a conversation between elephant seals to soaring the length of a football field with glow-in-the-dark squirrels. It is exec produced by James Cameron and comes from Plimsoll Productions.
The Avatar director is also following up his own Secrets of the Whales with two more series in the strand. Secrets of the Elephant, which