Cameron Crowe, of Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous and Vanilla Sky fame – who hasn’t directed in Elizabethtown in 2005 – has been linked with the script of Ben Mee’s best selling memoir of running the Dartmoor Wildlife Park, We Bought a Zoo.
In March last year we had news that Twentieth Century Fox had bought the story – and we’re still unsure as to whether the South West will be tipped as the location for the shoot. But what we do know, courtesy New York magazine, is that Oscar-nominated Devil Wears Prada screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna has written the script.
The story is a poignant tale of Guardian columnist Ben’s purchase of a 12-bedroom mansion on Dartmoor for his wife, two children, brother and 76-year-old mother. The new home also included the run down 30-acre Dartmoor Wildlife Park. As the animals in the zoo improve, Mee’s wife is diagnosed with terminal cancer and becomes increasingly ill.
