London,
(ANI):
American
actor
Matt
Damon
will
be
playing
the
role
of
an
amateur
Devon
zookeeper
in
an
upcoming
film.
The
39-year-old
actor
will
portray
the
role
of
Benjamin
Mee,
whose
mother
sold
Surrey
home
so
that
her
family
could
buy
Dartmoor
Zoo
when
it
was
about
to
go
out
of
business.
Mee
only
managed
to
persuade
the
owners
of
the
zoo
to
sell
it
to
someone
with
no
experience
of
running
it
and
no
finances
to
redevelop
one
when
no
other
buyer
could
be
found
and
the
animals
faced
being
shot.
He
took
over
the
estate
and
the
family
moved
into
its
12-bedroom
house
while
there
were
five
Siberian
tigers,
three
African
lions,
nine
wolves,
three
brown
European
bears,
two
pumas,
a
lynx,
four
Asian
short-clawed
otters,
two
flamingos,
quite
a
lot
of
owls
and
a
Brazilian
tapir
called
Ronnie,
reports
The
Telegraph.
Cameron
Crowe
will
direct
the
film,
financed
by
20th
Century
Fox.