As Fair Game, his Valerie Plame drama, rolls slowly towards release, Doug Liman is lining up a wide variety of other films to work on. Alongside the previously discussed All You Need Is Kill and Attica, he's now added Last of the Tribe**, a drama set in the Amazon.
Based on the just-published book by Monte Reel, it's the true story of a previously uncontacted one-man tribe living in a remote part of Rodonia, Brazil who was discovered in 1996, soon after the area had been opened for development. The existence of this single indigenous man protected a 31-square mile area of rainforest from logging or deforestation, making him a target for those anxious to exploit the land. In turn, a group of government workers made it their job to protect the reluctant and fiercely isolationist man from all comers, ultimately risking their jobs and their lives as powerful pressure was brought to bear on the land.
Reel was a Washington Post correspondant, so the book is more fact-based than the film will probably turn out, but the potential for a political but action-y adventure is pretty high. Mark Bailey's writing the script, and should keep things pretty factual given his background in documentaries like Ghosts of Abu Ghraib and Pandemic: Facing AIDS, and on fact-based films like the New Line-optioned The Zenith Man. Where this fits in on Liman's schedule isn't clear, but at the very least it's another possible project for him to look at.