Joe Wright is set to direct Indian Summer for Working Title and Universal.
The film originates from 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 Britain’s status as a world superpower.
William Nicholson (Gladiator) is penning the screenplay.
Wright hopes to start shooting the film early next year on location in India, but no cast has been mentioned.
According to Variety, the film will follow the momentous 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.
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