Bestseller ‘The Last Animal’ Acquired by Walden Media and Big Beach for Film Adaptation; Ry Russo-Young to Direct (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comMatt Donnelly Senior Film Writer “The Last Animal,” the award-winning bestselling novel from Ramona Ausubel, has been snatched up for film adaptation by production companies Walden Media and Big Beach.
Ry Russo-Young has been set to direct the feature based on the emotionally resonant story. Published in April 2023 by Riverhead Books at Penguin Random House, Ausbel’s work was named best book of the year by NPR, Kirkus Reviews and Oprah Daily, among others.
A distributor has not yet been set. “Last Animal” follows teenage sisters Eve and Vera, unexpectedly spending summer vacation on their mother’s scientific expedition.
Fooling around in the permafrost, the sisters accidentally uncover a perfectly preserved, four-thousand-year-old baby mammoth.
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