“Black Mass” director Scott Cooper is in talks to direct “American Wolf” for Warner Bros., Leonardo DiCaprio‘s Appian Way and Kevin McCormick‘s Langley Park, TheWrap has learned.
Based on source material from Nate Blakeslee, a senior editor at Texas Monthly, the story follows a hunter in Yellowstone National Park who accidentally kills an endangered American wolf, and the unlikely friendship that forms between him and the wildlife researcher who works with wolves in the park.
A representative for Cooper did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“American Wolf” will inevitably draw comparisons to the recent story of Cecil the Lion, though this predates that tragic tale by several years.