The Wild Blue Yonder
Poster for the Italian version
Directed by	Werner Herzog
Produced by	Herzog Filmproduktion Tetramedia
Written by	Werner Herzog
Starring	Brad Dourif as the alien
Music by	Ernst Reijseger Mola Sylla
Distributed by	Fandango
Release date(s)	November 25, 2005 (USA)
Running time	81 min.
Language	English
IMDb profile

The Wild Blue Yonder is a science fiction documentary film by the German director Werner Herzog, released in 2005. It has been presented at the 62nd Venice Film Festival, where it was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (420x601, 30 KB) This image is of a movie poster, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the movie or the studio which produced the movie in question. ... Werner Herzog. ... Werner Herzog. ... Brad Dourif Bradford Claude Dourif (March 18, 1950, Huntington, West Virginia) is an American actor with a popular reputation for playing deranged or unbalanced character roles. ... Fandangos is a form of flamenco music style, probably derived from the jota. ... November 25 is the 329th (in leap years the 330th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Werner Herzog. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Venice Film Festival (it: Mostra Internazionale dArte Cinematografica) is the oldest Film Festival in the World (began in the 1932) and takes place every year in late August/early September on the Lido di Venezia in the historic Palazzo del Cinema on the Lungomare Marconi, in Venice, Italy. ...

The film is about an extraterrestrial (played by Brad Dourif) who came to Earth several years ago from a water planet (The Wild Blue Yonder), after his species exhausted their resources. His narration reveals that the aliens have tried through the years to form a community on our planet, though without great success. Extraterrestrial, as an adjective, refers to something that originates, occurs, or is located outside Earth or its atmosphere. ... Brad Dourif Bradford Claude Dourif (March 18, 1950, Huntington, West Virginia) is an American actor with a popular reputation for playing deranged or unbalanced character roles. ... Understanding planetary habitability is partly an extrapolation of the Earths conditions, as it is the only planet currently known to harbor life. ...

The alien also tells the story of a space mission he became aware of after finding a job with the CIA. In the late 90s, he says, the debris from the Roswell UFO crash was unearthed and examined. The scientists falsely believed that they had contracted an infectious alien disease from the debris, and an exploratory mission was launched to Blue Yonder (represented with archival footage from STS-34 and Henry Kaiser's diving expedition in Antarctica) in order that a new, uninfected human colony might be created there. After deciding Blue Yonder was suitable for human habitation, the astronauts returned home to Earth 800 years later only to discover that the planet had been abandoned in their absence. The CIA Seal The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an American intelligence agency, responsible for obtaining and analyzing information about foreign governments, corporations, and individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. Government. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... STS-34 was a space shuttle mission by NASA using the Space Shuttle Atlantis. ... Henry Kaiser, born in Oakland, California, on 19 September 1952, is a widely-recorded experimental guitarist and frequent collaborator with other musicians from the San Francisco Bay Area. ... U.S. Space Shuttle astronaut Bruce McCandless II using a manned maneuvering unit. ...

An image from the film set in a Space Shuttle

The scenes in space are courtesy of NASA and feature authentic astronauts. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1920x1080, 1066 KB) This image is a screenshot from a copyrighted film, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by the studio which produced the film, and possibly also by any actors appearing in the screenshot. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1920x1080, 1066 KB) This image is a screenshot from a copyrighted film, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by the studio which produced the film, and possibly also by any actors appearing in the screenshot. ... NASA logo Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from an article revision dated 2005-09-01, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... Template:Redirect Template:Redirect U.S. Space Shuttle astronaut Bruce McCandless II using a manned maneuvering unit (MMU) outside the Challenger in 1984. ...

External links

• Official site