Walter Salles’ ‘Wild Life’ Brings Him Back To Hollywood

I guess this means that the adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road is proving to be more of a perilous project, as Walter Salles appears to be moving onto a Hollywood biopic in the interim.

Formerly known as “Peaceable Kingdom” and “Elephant Orphanage”, Our Wild Life was scripted by Jeff Stockwell, this is based on the life and work of Daphne Sheldrick, who has devoted her life to preventing elephant extinction by endeavoring to save baby elephants left orphaned by war, poaching and culling.

Salles would bring his expertise for filming in the outdoors to a family film project which will look to cast a 40 or 50-something actress in the Daphne Sheldrick role, and I’m sincerely hoping that New Line will set up some fund for this project, have a better track record than their parent company Warner Bros recently had with the chimps they used for Speed Racer.