“Wild Wild Country” is a new Netflix Original documentary series about a controversial cult leader who builds a utopian city in the Oregon desert in 1981, causing locals to become concerned about the 64,000 acre compound complete with shops, hospital, airport and schools, which turns into a national scandal.
Wild Wild Country will stream on Netflix March 16
About Wild Wild Country
On a quiet day in 1981, disciples of an obscenely wealthy religious guru named Bhagwan Rajneesh, also knows as Osho, suddenly appear in the small, conservative Oregon town of Antelope, dressed in all red and with portraits of their leader hanging from their necks. This, of course, makes the townsfolk uneasy.
The Rajneesh followers spend over $125 million to build Rajneeshpuram, a 64,000-acre utopia, complete with a hospital, schools, restaurants, a shopping mall, and their own airport. The spokesperson for the movement is Ma Anand Sheela, a fearless disciple whose belief in the principles of Rajneesh are only outweighed by her feisty spirit. In order to stack the results of county elections in their favor, the Rajneesh bus thousands of homeless people onto the ranch. When these new recruits are denied voting rights by the state, Rajneesh leaders surreptitiously infect local restaurants with salmonella, resulting in the largest biochemical terrorist attack on U.S. soil. And that’s only the beginning …
Directors Maclain and Chapman Way, whose debut documentary, The Battered Bastards of Baseball, premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, co-created this riveting six-part docuseries that recounts the amazing true story of a fallen religious movement.
In 2018, the Duplass brothers reunited with Netflix to produce and distribute their six-part documentary series, Wild Wild Country. The documentary series premiered in its entirety (over 6.5 hours) at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Chapman and Maclain are currently developing non-scripted projects, including two documentary series and a feature documentary film, set for production and release in late 2018 and 2019.
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