Coming soon: Operation Ark – The Movie

Ben Wallace’s week goes from bad to worse. Amid continuing criticisms of the botched evacuation from Afghanistan, news reaches Steerpike that talks have begun about making the story of Operation Ark into a Hollywood film. It was said that the story of Penn Farthing’s evacuation of his animal sanctuary from Kabul had every thing: drama, tragedy and a rich cast of heroes and villains. And now that story could be told with the rest of the world, judging from the interest already being expressed.

Animal welfare campaigner Dominic Dyer, a close friend of Farthing, told Steerpike that while the immediate focus had been on the evacuation of the at-risk animals, discussions have already begun about dramatising Penn Farthing’s tale. He said:

It’s just early stages of discussion I think but it’s fair to say that it’s got a lot of interest generated by various people, particularly in the US at the moment and Spencer Haber who we have been working with makes documentaries, makes a lot of films in the film sort of area and he’s interested in thinking about what we might do with scripts and talking to producers.