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Appian Way, the prod shingle managed by Leonardo DiCaprio, have teamed with Kevin McCormick’s Langley Park to make a film of Nate Blakeslee’s book “American Wolf”.
According to The Hollywood Reporter :
Wolf tells the story of O-Six, who in some circles was the world’s most famous wild animal. The female alpha wolf was collared and tracked by researchers at Yellowstone National Park, gaining a huge following from not only scientists but the public as well. She was shot by a hunter in 2012 just outside the park’s boundaries, an act that caused howls around the country (she even got an obituary in The New York Times) despite it being legal — wolves were scaled back from endangered species’ lists, so there were new population control measures in place.
Blakeslee, a senior editor at Texas Monthly, focused on O-Six (named after the year she was born) and the impact she had on the humans around her, as well as the wolf watchers and nature aficionado who symbolized the conservation movement’s success, and the hunter, a vilified man who remains unnamed to this day.
New Regency and Robert Zemeckis’ ImageWorks were also looking at picking up the rights to the book.
