Joe Wright Helming Indian Summer

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=53641

Source: Variety
March 12, 2009


The Soloist helmer Joe Wright will next direct Indian Summer for Working Title and Universal, reports Variety.

The project is based on the book of the same name by Alex von Tunzelmann about the last days of Britain's colonial rule in India and the symbolic end of Blighty's status as a world superpower.

William Nicholson (Gladiator) is writing the screenplay.

Filming is set to begin early next year on location in India. No cast has been set.

Pic will follow the fateful events as Britain's Lord Mountbatten, with glamorous wife Edwina in tow, is sent to oversee the handover of power in the summer of 1947 to Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister

This sounds like perfect material for Wright.

 

[Octoberist]

I love Atonement!

 

[Prison Mike]

this could be really good. Looking forward to it.

 

[Episode29]

Man, for all this guy's talent and hype, he picks the most boring, Oscar-baity damn projects possible.

 

[PWN3R]

I'm a big fan of this guy, and I'm really stoked for The Soloist. This does sound right up his alley, wonder what the cast will be like.

 

[Dr. Evil]

It's a period piece so Keira Knightley would be perfect for this movie.

 

[Dr. Evil]

Damn it!

 

[PWN3R]

Cate Blanchett has been cast as Edwina Mountbatten, the female lead in Indian Summer.