Deadline is reporting that Oscar-winning filmmaker Barry Jenkins (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk), Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood), and Netflix are teaming up on a feature adaptation of the Oscar-nominated documentary Virunga.
The true story follows rangers risking their lives to save Africa’s most precious national park and its endangered gorillas.
The original documentary film was written and directed by Orlando von Einsiedel (The White Helmets).
In the forested depths of eastern Congo lies Virunga National Park, one of the most bio-diverse places on Earth and home to the planet’s last remaining mountain gorillas.