Filmmaker Gabe Polsky was finishing work on a movie when his producer friend Doug DeLuca called him with a most unlikely tip.

“I could hear it in his voice,” says Polsky on a recent video call, recalling DeLuca’s hesitation to bring up his idea.

“He’s like, ‘This is kind of weird, and I don’t know why I thought of you, but would you be open to hearing this really strange story that came across my desk?’”

Polsky, whose past film projects include documentary and feature films with collaborators such as Nicolas Cage, Wayne Gretzky and Werner Herzog , said yes.

This is what DeLuca told him: Several Indigenous tribes in South America had ancient prophecies that one day, when the world was ablaze, its waters filled with poison, a man with a White face and blue eyes would arrive to h

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