Premise: A Far Off Place is a 1993 American adventure drama film based on Laurens van der Post's works "A Far-Off Place" (1974) and its prequel "A Story Like the Wind" (1972). The film stars Reese Witherspoon, Ethan Randall, Jack Thompson and Maximilian Schell. The filming locations were in Namibia and Zimbabwe.
Hypothesis: A Far Off Place was filmed before the novel was written.