His latest film, real-life mobster drama Black Mass, brings us a terrifying Johnny Depp. But director Scott Cooper is now being courted to tackle a story that also features guns and death, albeit with a more empathic element: **American Wolf.
Leonardo DiCaprio and his Appian Way company is part of the team trying to score Cooper’s services to direct this one for Warner Bros. It’ll be based on material from Texas Monthly senior editor Nate Blakeslee, who chronicled a hunter in Yellowstone National Park and his accidental killing of an endangered wolf.
The animal, a female alpha who had been tagged and tracked by researchers in the park, was known as O-Six, or 832F. Despite the dystopian-sounding codename, she quickly became a star in the eyes of the scientists and an animal-loving public, and the outcry after her accidental shooting was so big, she received an obituary in The New York Times. The hunter formed an unlikely friendship with one of the researchers, and has remained a mystery to this day.
Kevin McCormick and his Langley Park team first nabbed the rights, with DiCaprio also set to produce but not – at least for the moment – star. As mentioned above, Cooper’s Black Mass will be out on November 27 in the UK.
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