Soon, a flick on restoration of run-down Dartmoor zoo

London: The restoration of the derelict Dartmoor zoo is set to become the plot a new Hollywood flick.

Filmmaker Cameron Crowe will reportedly helm the movie, which will be adaptation of Ben Mee’s book We Bought A Zoo. The film will narrate the life of Ben’s family after taking on the park and 200 animals in Sparkwell, Devon. The book rights were bought by Twentieth Century Fox in 2009. “I’m delighted and very encouraged. Fox have been in touch and said Cameron Crowe has been appointed director,” a news daily quoted Ben, as saying. He added: “He has a reputation for sympathetic, quirky biographical stories.” Ben, his mother and brother used their own money and his father’s legacy to restore the Dartmoor Zoological Park in 2006. ANI