{"id":116246,"date":"2020-11-23T13:22:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T21:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/how-werner-herzog-learned-to-love-star-wars"},"modified":"2020-11-23T13:22:17","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T21:22:17","slug":"how-werner-herzog-learned-to-love-star-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/how-werner-herzog-learned-to-love-star-wars","title":{"rendered":"How Werner Herzog learned to love Star Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-werner-herzog-learned-to-love-star-wars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHerzog tells Inverse he\u2019s less concerned than ever that a meteorite will destroy the Earth, but that doesn\u2019t mean we shouldn\u2019t still be worried about our own extinction. \u201cIt may be 100 million years to go until then,\u201d Herzog says, before adding, \u201cwithin the next thousand years, we may have done such stupid things that we are not around anymore to contemplate it.\u201d The German filmmaker also explains what asteroids reveal about the universe, why he\u2019s never watched Rick and Morty, even though it\u2019s a \u201cfiendishly intelligent show,\u201d and lists the many things that could wipe out humanity before a meteorite ever arrives.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The legendary director discusses his new film, \u2018Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds,\u2019 along with Star Wars, \u2018Rick and Morty,\u2019 and working with a co-director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHerzog tells Inverse he\u2019s less concerned than ever that a meteorite will destroy the Earth, but that doesn\u2019t mean we shouldn\u2019t still be worried about our own extinction. \u201cIt may be 100 million years to go until then,\u201d Herzog says, before adding, \u201cwithin the next thousand years, we may have done such stupid things that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}