Deadline is reporting that Mark Wahlberg has signed on for the lead role in Arthur the King, an adaptation of Mikael Lindnord’s Arthur: The Dog Who Crossed the Jungle to Find a Home.
Scripted by Michael Brandt, the film will tell the true story of Lindnord (Wahlberg), ” a Swedish adventure racer who won the hearts of millions when he and his team adopted Arthur, a badly wounded but big-hearted stray dog who tagged along with them during an epic endurance race in Ecuador.”
Arthur the King becomes the latest project on Wahlberg’s slate alongside his latest Peter Berg collaboration Wonderland, the Antoine Fuqua sci-fi action thriller Infinite, the long-gestating The Six Billion Dollar Man, and the animated Scooby-Doo movie Scoob.
