The Lion King of the Silver Screen

You’ve seen the YouTube video of Christian the Lion reuniting in Africa – to the tune of Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” – with the two men who bought him from a high-end London department store in 1969, right?

Well, Sony Pictures is looking to bring the story of Christian and the two men, John Rendall and Anthony “Ace” Bourke, to the silver screen.

The studio is in the process of securing the life-story rights of Rendall and Bourke and their 1972 book, A Lion Called Christian.

Now that’s the kind of news over which we could all give one another a big ol’ lion hug…just like Christian: