Wednesday, May 12, 2010

The Tiger, a True Story Based Thriller by John Vailiant, to be Adapted for Film

The Tiger by John Vailiant
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The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Guillermo Arriaga (21 Grams, The Burning Plain) is adapting the yet-to-be-published thriller based on real events, The Tiger by John Vailiant, as a vehicle for Brad Pitt. The film will be a co-production between Focus Pictures and Random House's (the book's publisher) film division. The Tiger is scheduled to be published in August 2010.

About The Tiger (from the publisher): When Yuri Trush was called in to investigate an attack by a Siberian tiger, what he found was unlike anything he’d ever encountered. Nothing remained of the victim but stumps of bone protruding from his boots. Even more chilling was the evidence that this attack had been carefully orchestrated, as if the tiger was seeking revenge. Before long, the beast struck again, and Trush, leader of a tiger conservation unit, found himself forced to hunt this animal through the brutal cold of a Siberian winter, becoming intimately acquainted with the tiger’s history, motives, and unique method of attack—until their harrowing final encounter.

John Vaillant recreates these astonishing events against the backdrop of Russia’s most remote frontier, a place where the native peoples worship tigers but poachers threaten the species’ survival. He describes the historic collisions between Chinese and Russian settlers (trappers, thieves, deserters, and exiles), and the struggles of their descendants, who, in the chaotic aftermath of perestroika, turn to poaching to survive—in this case with deadly consequences.

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