Sean Penn to direct Alaska adventure
Into the Wild, with Emile Hirsch (
The Lords of Dogtown) to star, according to Variety.
Project is based on Penn's adaptation of Jon Krakauer's bestseller. Hirsch will portray Christopher McCandless, who graduated from college in 1992, abandoned his possessions and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness and return to nature. He died four months later in an abandoned bus at a remote campsite.