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Variety<\/i> reports that two new films, both of them based on books, will be set in India. First<\/a>, there is the new Peter Weir<\/a> film:<\/span><\/p>\n

Peter Weir will direct \u201cShantaram<\/a>,\u201d the Warner Bros. adaptation of the Gregory David Roberts novel that will star Johnny Depp.<\/p>\n

Weir will develop the script with Eric Roth<\/a>. WB hopes to begin production late next year.<\/p>\n

Pic is being produced by Initial Entertainment Group\u2019s Graham King along with Depp\u2019s Infinitum Nihil banner and Plan B\u2019s Brad Pitt.<\/p>\n

When negotiations are complete, Weir \u2014 who last directed Russell Crowe in \u201cMaster and Commander: The Far Side of the World<\/a>\u201d \u2014 will take on a tale with the political and wartime tensions reminiscent of his early efforts like \u201cThe Year of Living Dangerously<\/a>\u201d and \u201cGallipoli<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Protag is an Australian heroin addict who escapes a maximum-security prison and reinvents himself in India as a doctor in the slums of Bombay. His attempt to find medicine for his destitute patients leads him into counterfeiting, gunrunning and smuggling. . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Second<\/a>, there is this adaptation of Barbara Hodgson\u2019s first book:<\/p>\n

The Jim Henson Co. has set Yuri Zeltser<\/a> and Cary Bickley<\/a> to adapt Barbara Hodgson suspense novel \u201cThe Tattooed Map<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deal reunites the writers with company principal Lisa Henson, who produced with Janet Yang the Fox\/Regency pic \u201cHigh Crimes<\/a>,\u201d which Zeltser and Bickley scripted. Henson Co. has so far put up its own coin to option the book and hire the writers, and Henson will produce the pic.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is about a couple\u2019s relationship that is tested when they are overseas and a mysterious, tattooed map appears on the woman\u2019s body,\u201d said Zeltser. \u201cIt leads to a discovery of secrets from each other\u2019s past.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bickley said the book\u2019s Morocco locale is being switched to India for the pic. . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This particular story grabs my eye because I happened to interview Hodgson, a business partner of Griffin & Sabine<\/a><\/i> author Nick Bantock\u2019s, when The Tattooed Map<\/i> first came out ten years ago. You can read the interview on page 5 of this PDF file<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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