Random House Films, the co-financing unit established by Random House and indie studio Focus Features to adapt the publisher's books into films, has announced the latest potential project in its partnership, an adaptation of John Vaillant's forthcoming The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival. The nonfiction book, which is being released by Knopf in late August, is set on the Siberian plane amid the destruction of the local tigers' natural habitat and concerns a tiger that begins hunting a group of townspeople and the game warden called upon to stop the animal.
Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment has inked an agreement to producer the feature, with worldwide rights to the film being held by Focus. Babel screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga has been tapped to handle the script and The Wrestler director/producer Darren Aronofsky is on board to produce, along with Mark Heyman and Ari Handel. According to Random House, no director for the project has been named.
Thus far, Random House Films has released one film, the launch project of the partnership, 2007's Reservation Road. Other titles which have been announced as potential adaptations from RH Films, but which have not gone into production, include the Dean Koontz thriller The Husband, Bob Drogin's 2007 book about the Iraqi refugee who turned the CIA onto Saddam Hussein's cache of potential weapons of mass destruction, Curveball, and Yasmina Khadra's 2006 novel dealing with the Isaraeli-Palestinian conflict, The Attack.
