Director Cameron Crowe has been lying low since the 2005’s horrid Elizabethtown. However, the man who brought us Almost Famous, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and Say Anything has signed on to direct We Bought A Zoo, which will be an adaptation of the memoir by Benjamin Mee.
Vacillating over the project since last winter, Crowe is now moving forward full speed. He began rewriting Aline Brosh McKenna’s script to more reflect his own sensibilities. Zoo is set for release on December 23, 2011.
The book tells the true account of how Mee and his family used their entire life savings to buy a crumbling zoo, complete with 200 exotic animals facing utter destruction, in the English countryside.
Mee, along with his children, and his wife, who is dying of brain cancer, deal with all sorts of crazy things like escaped tigers, raising endangered animals, working with a strange skeleton crew and trying to prepare the zoo for reopening.
The author also was the subject of Ben’s Zoo, a BBC documentary.
The Pulse: Despite the how terrible Elizabethtown was, Crowe has some really solid films on his resume. I really hope he’ll be able to pull this one off and remind people who he is.
Source: THR