Universal Pictures and Nickelodeon have picked up the rights to an untitled adventure comedy about a safari gone wrong.
The film revolves around a family – mum, dad, older girl, younger boy – who get stranded while on safari in Tanzania. But rather than sit around and wait to get eaten or bitten to death, the resourceful family battle to find a way home, tangling with wild animals and bad guys along the way.
The script for the family film will be written by Jeff Lowell, the writer of the forthcoming Hotel For Dogs and therefore a man who knows his way around this genre. But the concept comes from Lowell and Matt Lopez, who really knows his way around family films – not only did he write Disney’s Escape To Witch Mountain and the forthcoming Bedtime Stories, but he’s on board the new Nic Cage family fantasy, The Sorceror’s Apprentice. Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher will produce.