Eldon, Krauss, Macharia and Maina were attacked by a mob, and stoned and beaten to death. One soldier who participated in the attack claimed the Army viewed Eldon and the other journalists as collateral damage, stating, "We were considering people that I previously considered not expendable, expendable." Film adaptation 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. References Books External links Dan Eldon: Artist, Activist, Adventurer Official website 1970 births 1993 deaths People from Hampstead English war correspondents English emigrants to Kenya English people of American descent English people of German descent Photographers from London English people murdered abroad People murdered in Somalia Journalists killed while covering the Somali Civil War Alumni of the International School of Kenya Deaths by stoning