Element Films and Spitfire Pictures will turn the life and death of U.S. aid worker Fred Cuny into a feature film. The companies have acquired "
The Man Who Tried to Save the World," a book by Scott Anderson ("Spring Break in Bosnia"), as well as rights to 1997 "Frontline" documentary "The Lost American."
The film will focus on the death-defying disaster-relief exploits of Cuny, a Texan who became known as the Master of Disaster for his accomplishments in unstable places like Iraq, Ethiopia, Somalia, Bosnia and Chechnya. He went missing in Chechnya in 1995 as he tried to negotiate a ceasefire. It is believed that he was murdered there.