Variety are reporting that Doug Liman, director of Swingers, Go and The Bourne Identity is going about the business of directing an adaptation of Monte Reel’s non-fiction book “The Last of the Tribe: The Epic Quest to Save a Lone Man in the Amazon” for Chockstone Pictures.

Reel was a South American correspondent for the Washington Post and the book chronicles the search for the last surviving member of an Amazonian tribe. Coming Soon carry the following:-

The discovery of the Indian prevented local ranchers from seizing his land, and led a small group of men who believed that he was the last of a murdered tribe to dedicate themselves to protecting him. These men worked for the government, overseeing indigenous interests in an odd job that was part Indiana Jones, part social worker, and were among the most experienced adventurers in the Amazon.

They were a motley crew that included a rebel who spent more than a decade living with a tribe, a young man who left home to work in the forest at age fourteen, and an old-school sertanista with a collection of tall tales amassed over five decades of jungle exploration.

Their quest would prove far more difficult than any of them could imagine. Over the course of a decade, the struggle to save the Indian and his land would pit them against businessmen, politicians, and even the Indian himself, a man resolved to keep the outside world at bay at any cost. It would take them into the furthest reaches of the forest and to the halls of Brazil’s Congress, threatening their jobs and even their lives. Ensuring the future of the Indian and his land would lead straight to the heart of the conflict over the Amazon itself.

That all sounds intriguing and given Bourne and even Jumper, Doug Liman seems like a safe pair of hands for a globe trotting adventure. Mark Bailey is adapting the screenplay, although there is no word currently on when this might start rolling before the cameras.

Reported by David Roper