Disney has green-lighted a film about Charles Darwin, which will look at his years aboard HMS Beagle. The only information given so far is that the film will be an adventure, a la Indiana Jones, with a script and direction by Stephen Gaghan (Traffic, Syriana).
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I don’t mind if they make this an action adventure film with Darwin as the hero, but I hope that they at least keep the science accurate.
http://darwinskidneys.blogspot.com/
And the history!