Zac Efron will play WIRED Magazine investigator in "King Of The Jungle." The movie will be based on John McAfee's Last Stand,` the story of rogue tech magnate John McAfee, creator of the McAfee Antivirus software, who left civilization and moved to the jungle in Belize. Efron will portray investigator Ari Furman while the casting of John McAfee is still underway.

Zac Efron was recently seen in "The Beach Bum" and "Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile."The duo of Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (Crazy, Stupid, Love , I Love You Philip Morris) will be directing from a script by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (Ed Wood, Dolemite is My Name). The film will enter into pre-production early next year.