In 1996, Paramount Pictures released The Ghost and the Darkness, a historical horror-adventure film directed by Stephen Hopkins, starring Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas. The story is based on the true account of the Tsavo man-eaters, in which two lions — reasons for which are still debated to this day — mercilessly preyed upon construction workers during the tumultuous construction of a significant railway bridge in Kenya, Africa. Over the course of nearly a year, these two lions were reportedly responsible for the death of 135 people.

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