Films co-produced by Focus with Random House Films are jointly owned, with Focus holding worldwide distribution and sales rights. Random House Films and Focus jointly acquire film rights for the books and partner together on script development, director selection, all phases of production, and marketing and publicity. The tiger isnt just killing people, its annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. Here’s more about the ongoing partnership between Random House Films and Focus, from the release: “he companies develop movies together and co-finance and co-produce a substantial slate of feature films for theatrical release, all based on books published by Random House imprints in North America and internationally. Its December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote Russian village. The Tiger : A True Story of Vengeance and Survival f By John Vaillant HODDER & STOUGHTON fIts December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote Russian village. It is a fight that only one of them can win.” With townspeople being tracked and hunted with an almost supernatural power, a conservationist game warden must face down the tiger. Here’s more from the release: “ takes place on the Siberian plain, where human development is encroaching on the tigers’ habitat–and one tiger turns on the intruders.

The film is part of a partnership between Random House Inc.’s Random House Films division and Focus Features. The Wrestler director Darren Aronofsky will produce the film for his company Protozoa Pictures alongside Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment.

Guillermo Arriaga, the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of Babel, will write the script. A few months ahead of its August 24th publication date, John Vaillant’s nonfiction book The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival is already slated for a high-profile adaptation.

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