In a non-surprising move Joe Wright, the man who brought you Pride and Prejudice and Atonement wants to direct another European piece. According to Variety, Wright has signed on to direct Indian Summer. The film will be based on the novel of the same name written by Alex von Tunzelmann. The story focuses on “the last days of Britain’s colonial rule in India and the symbolic end of Blighty’s status as a world superpower.” Sounds like a fitting project for Mr. Wright. Find out more on the adaptation after the jump.

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Golden Globe nominee Colin Farrell, is in talks to star in the Peter Weir directed drama This Way Back. According to Variety, the Irish actor is in the final stages of negotiations to star in the film alongside Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess, and Saoirse Ronan.  The film is a “fact-based story of a group of soldiers who engineered a grueling escape from a Siberian gulag in 1942.”

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