J. Mills Goodloe has been brought on board to write Christian the Lion, Sony and Neal Moritz’s adaptation about the feline and its two owners who became a YouTube sensation. Lion is the true story that began when two friends, John Rendall and Anthony "Ace" Bourke, bought a lion cub from Harrods and raised it in their antique shop on King's Road in swinging 60's London. Seeking to do right by the cub, they eventually contacted famed conservationist George Adamson and went about the process of rehabilitating the lion into the wild in Kenya. Many months after the rehabilitation was complete,
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- 10/25/2013
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
We told you back then that Sony had picked up the life rights to the lion's owners, John Rendall and Anthony "Ace" Bourke. And even though YouTube has moved on to celebrate the likes of the "Single Ladies" kid or the crying Justin Bieber toddler, Christian The Lion will have his time on the big screen after all. The La Times is reporting that Sony has hired writers Piers Ashworth and Nick Moorcroft to handle the adventure story, and Neal Moritz will handle the producing duties. Ashworth and Moorcroft are behind the very promising looking John Landis comedy Burke and Hare, starring Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis as a pair of 19th century grave robbers. I have no idea how those skills will lead into a heartwarming story about two dudes raising a lion, but I've gotten misty over the YouTube video so many times now that I'm clearly too...
- 7/7/2010
- cinemablend.com
Sony Pictures is planning a big-screen version of an ultra-popular YouTube video about a lion reuniting with the two men who set him free in Africa, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Millions of viewers watched the "Christian the Lion" video, which features a couple of scenes from a '70s documentary about John Rendall and Anthony "Ace" Bourke, two men who bought a lion cup from Harrods department and later set it free in Africa.
What is so striking about the footage is how the lion recogizes the two men after spending one year in the wild. After a short hesitation, Christian rushes toward them before they all embrace in a spectacular fashion.
Sony Pictures is currently in progress of acquiring the rights to Rendall and Bourke's book "A Lion Called Christian."
See what YouTube can do? Check out the original video just above.
Millions of viewers watched the "Christian the Lion" video, which features a couple of scenes from a '70s documentary about John Rendall and Anthony "Ace" Bourke, two men who bought a lion cup from Harrods department and later set it free in Africa.
What is so striking about the footage is how the lion recogizes the two men after spending one year in the wild. After a short hesitation, Christian rushes toward them before they all embrace in a spectacular fashion.
Sony Pictures is currently in progress of acquiring the rights to Rendall and Bourke's book "A Lion Called Christian."
See what YouTube can do? Check out the original video just above.
- 9/6/2008
- by Franck Tabouring
- screeninglog.com
Every now and then there's a YouTube clip that can get away with using a Whitney Houston song and still charm every single person who sees it, regardless of how cynical and hateful they may be. For months now that clip has been of Christian the lion, the animal raised as a cub by two men in London and eventually sent to live in the wild when he got too big. The men went to visit Christian a year later, and even though they were told the lion wouldn't remember them... well, why don't you just watch the clip for yourself . I'll wait. Now the story of Christian the hugging lion is going to be a movie, with Sony acquiring "life rights" to the lion's owners, John Rendall and Anthony "Ace" Bourke. The Hollywood Reporter notes that Sony also has the rights to the 1972 book that Rendall and Bourke wrote,...
- 9/5/2008
- cinemablend.com
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