The lions really did exist and are on display at the Field Museum (which unfortunately is inside the shithole that is Chicago), I've seen them many times. Michael Douglas's character is utterly fictional but the rest are based on real people and the attitudes of the British are accurate of the time. It's a condensed timeline, according to his autobiography it took months to hunt down the two lions while the movie makes it seem like a couple weeks and the true body count is still unknown with the lions having even disappeared for a month or so only to return and start killing people again so who knows where else they were hunting.
The lions really did exist and are on display at the Field Museum (which unfortunately is inside the shithole that is Chicago), I've seen them many times. Michael Douglas's character is utterly fictional but the rest are based on real people and the attitudes of the British are accurate of the time. It's a condensed timeline, according to his autobiography it took months to hunt down the two lions while the movie makes it seem like a couple weeks and the true body count is still unknown with the lions having even disappeared for a month or so only to return and start killing people again so who knows where else they were hunting.
Yeah, I knew that, still the best man's movie of the 1980s.