Daniel Radcliffe has signed for the lead role in Jungle, a new thriller from director Greg McLean (Wolf Creek), which is based upon Yossi Ghinsberg 2005 memoir Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival, which details his 1982 journey into the Amazon, where he became lost and spent three weeks battling for survival.
“I’m incredibly excited and honoured to have a role in furthering people’s awareness of what happened to Yossi Ghinsberg, Kevin Gale and Markus Stamm,” said Radcliffe. “Their story is a truly remarkable one that sheds light on both harrowing and hopeful aspects of human nature. It should be a very intense and physical shoot (obviously we wouldn’t be doing our jobs if it wasn’t) and I can’t wait to start work on it.”
Radcliffe has four films incoming this year in Swiss Army Man, Now You See Me 2, Imperium and Young Americans.
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Originally published February 12, 2016. Updated April 14, 2018.
