HOLLYWOOD (Zap2it.com) -- Filmmaker Brad Silberling ("Moonlight Mile") has struck a deal with Paramount Pictures to direct and produce a movie based on a "60 Minutes II" segment. Titled "Lost Boys," the picture will be co-produced by Outlaw Productions.

The film will center on a group of young boys who saw their villages and families burn 15 years ago during Sudan's civil war, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The boys, ages 7-11, began walking out of the region, and soon hundreds became thousands. Many died along the way as they walked across deserts and over mountains while eating wet mud and drinking their own urine to stay alive.

In 1992, the emaciated children arrived at a refugee camp in Kenya, where they survived on one meal a day -- wheat flour and maize. In 2000, the U.S. government began bringing the now-grown boys to America, where they began new lives.

Silberling is currently in pre-production on "Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events," which stars Jim Carrey. Production on the film is set to begin this fall, following which Silberling will begin work on "Lost Boys."