It was announced in "The New York Times" on 28 December 2007 that Eldon would be the subject of a biographical film, "The Journey Is the Destination", the title of which was taken from a page of his journals that was released under the same name by Chronicle Books. The film was directed by Bronwen Hughes and produced by Martin Katz, Kathy Eldon, Richard Arlook and Kweku Mandela, and was shot in South Africa from July to September 2014. The film, starring Ben Schnetzer, Kelly Macdonald, and Maria Bello, premiered in 2016 at the Toronto Film Festival and was released on Netflix in October 2017.