Those animal lovers at 20th Century Fox have picked up the rights to Benjamin Mee’s memoir We Bought a Zoo. It tells the true account of how the author and his family used their life savings to buy a broken zoo, replete with 200 exotic animals facing destruction, in the English countryside.

The memoir follows Mee, along with his children, balance caring for his wife – dying from brain cancer – and dealing with escaped tigers, raising endangered animals, and more.

No writer is yet attached to the project. Julie Yorn will produce.