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Netflix has lined up a brand new historic documentary for its 2024 slate of documentaries that will probably be voiced by the award-winning actor Sir Patrick Stewart, greatest recognized for his roles in titles like X-Men and Star Trek.
Stewart joins a prestigious record of narrators who’ve supplied the narration for Netflix documentaries. Over the years, Netflix has labored with Barack Obama, David Attenborough, Peter Dinklage, Helena Bonham Carter, John Boyega, Mahershala Ali, Morgan Freeman, and Charles Dance.
The documentary is directed by Ashley Gething, the London-based director recognized for The Greatest Game, A World in Arms, and As It Happened: Pearl Harbor.
Netflix has solely supplied a brief logline for the doc so far that states:
“An exploration of the mystery of the disappearance of the Neanderthals and their lifestyle.”
Gething expands additional on the documentary on his LinkedIn profile, saying:
“An archaeology feature doc focused on a Cambridge University dig at the iconic Shanidar Cave in Kurdistan.”
The documentary will premiere on Netflix globally on May 2nd, 2024.
Filming for the doc occurred in Iraq, Croatia, France, and Gibraltar.
Neanderthals have been a subspecies of Archaic people that went extinct roughly 40,000 years in the past and may very well be discovered predominantly throughout Europe and a few components of the Middle East and Asia. What precipitated the extinction of the Neanderthal is closely disputed to today, with components similar to local weather change, small inhabitants, illness, the rise of Homo Sapiens, and the assimilation of their species with fashionable people.
Neanderthal man on the human evolution exhibit on the Natural History Museum in London, United Kingdom – Photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures through Getty Images
This is one in all many documentaries lined up for launch in 2024 (that’s to not point out Netflix’s lineup of docuseries both), with another titles set to drop, together with Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa, Sherpa, Vampires of Gem City, What Jennifer Did, Will & Harper, and Ibelin.
Gething is a producer on the doc alongside Clementine Cheetham, and Andrew Cohen and Gideon Bradshaw are government producers.
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