Julia Roberts is set to star in and produce a biopic for Working Title Films about the wildlife conservationist Joan Root, who was murdered in her Kenyan home earlier this year.
The film does not have a title yet, but was inspired by Vanity Fair article “A Flowering Evil” (read it here), and will follow Root’s earlier life making documentaries around the globe with her husband. After their divorce, she returned to Kenya where she devoted herself to saving Lake Naivasha from the ecologically damaging flower farm industry.
David Magee is writing the screenplay. No director has been announced yet.
