Story about crying elephant to become movie about crying elephant

It has been over 20 years since Free Willy convinced the movie-watching public that keeping a wild animal in captivity is wrong, and only one year since Blackfish—the gritty, modern reboot of Free Willy—reminded the movie-watching public that it’s still wrong and that, hey, maybe we should all do something about it one of these days. Now Hollywood is back with another tearjerking story about a killer whale being abused and the quest to set him free, but there’s a twist this time: The animal is an elephant, not a killer whale.