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Scribe tapped for ‘Zoo’ trip
MUMBAI: Fox has signed Aline Brosh McKenna, the 27 Dresses screenwriter to write for their next We Bought a Zoo.
The studio picked up the rights to Benjamin Mee‘s memoir last February which Julie Yorn is to produce. Marc Gordon will co-produce which John Fox and Alex Young are overseeing for the studio.
That wouldn‘t be so easy. Lawyers point out that one can‘t simply bury someone in the backyard. Permits would have to be obtained.
Mee‘s book, published in September last by Weinstein Books, tells of how he, his cancer-stricken wife and their kids purchased a rundown zoo in the English countryside along with its 200 exotic animals and rehabilitated them.
McKenna, who had earlier written the screenplay for The Devil Wears Prada.
