Redford 'in discussion' to adapt Bryson travelogue

Fresh from the Sundance Film Festival, screen legend Robert Redford is reportedly in talks to produce and star in an adaptation of A Walk In The Woods, the best-selling travelogue by Bill Bryson.

The book charts Bryson's attempt to walk the Appalachian Trail, which stretches 2,174 miles from Georgia in America's south to Maine in the north-east.

The Hollywood Reporter says Redford, star of film classics The Sting, Barefoot In The Park and Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, is now in discussions alongside director Barry Levinson, who was behind the camera on Good Morning Vietnam and Rain Man.

However, the Reporter says the project may not be Redford's next film, as he is also signed up to an as-yet-unnamed biopic of Jackie Robinson, the player to break baseball's colour barrier. Redford will play Branch Rickey, the Brookyn Dodgers manager who signed Robinson.

The talks come fresh on the heels of Redford's Sundance Film Festival, which wrapped up on January 27th. Levinson's behind-the-scenes Hollywood expose What Just Happened? premiered at this year's event.

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