Zuckoff’s nonfiction book 13 Hours, about the 2012 terrorist attack on an American military compound in Benghazi, Libya, was made into an Oscar-nominated 2016 film, directed by Transformers’ Michael Bay Abate was an executive producer. The review pointed out that a description of a “dangerous rescue by glider planes has all the makings of a breathtaking movie scene” and that the book as a whole is “ready for the big screen.”It would appear that producer Elizabeth Gabler, head of 3000 Pictures, agrees on that score. Kirkus’ reviewer noted Zuckoff’s “successful re-creation of the grueling month-long experiences of the survivors-badly burned, with gangrenous wounds, often despairing that search planes wouldn’t find them under the dense jungle canopy” they also encountered local farmer-warriors. Only three people survived, including Margaret Hastings, a member of the Women’s Air Corps. Zuckoff’s work, which was named as one of Kirkus’ best nonfiction books of 2011, tells the tale of the 1945 crash of an American plane carrying 24 military men and women, in what is now known as Papua, in Western New Guinea. Zuckoff and producer Richard Abate will co-write the screenplay. Sony Pictures-based production company 3000 Pictures has bought the film rights to the Kirkus-starred survival story, according to Deadline. Boston University narrative studies professor Mitchell Zuckoff’s 2011 bestseller, Lost In Shangri-La: The Epic True Story of a Plane Crash Into the Stone Age, may soon fly onto movie screens.
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