After taking us to a POW camp in Laos, director Werner Herzog has his sights set on war town Burma in the late 1800’s for his next project. The Piano Tuner is being billed as a “a lush Victorian-era drama about a Brit’s journey to war-torn Burma” and will be released by Focus Features.

Based on Daniel Mason’s 2002 debut novel, the story centers on Edgar Drake, a man sent to a remote village in the late 1800s to repair an eccentric military man’s piano. Drake falls in love with a Burmese woman and her country, but as the officer wins over locals through music and medicine, things grow treacherous when his troops begin to suspect him of treason.

“Tuner” is right up the intense helmer’s alley. Herzog has directed several films about men venturing into exotic locales (”Rescue Dawn,” “Grizzly Man,” “Fitzcarraldo”), but this will be his biggest English-language costume drama in more than four decades as a filmmaker. [The Hollywood Reporter]

As a Herzog fan, I for one am excited. Although I have to wonder how he got the studio to give him what appears to be a fairly big budget. Maybe they’ve never seen Burden of Dreams?

To get psyched up there are some clips and trailers from some of my favorite Herzog films below and be sure to and help the Burma of today.