Joe Wright’s The Soloist is set to finally hit theaters on April 24th after being delayed. The film starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx was originally thought to be an award season contender, but the move to 2009 makes it an unlikely candidate for 2010 (if you believe in release dates determining award possibilities). Wright’s pedigree, of course, is sure to keep The Soloist in the thoughts of Oscar pundits should the film register with critics and audiences due to his success with Atonement and Pride and Prejudice. While The Soloist tells a story set in Los Angeles Wright tells Variety he “was looking for something that was primarily about the British experience” for his next outing, which will be Indian Summer based on the book of the same name by Alex von Tunzelmann.
William Nicholson (Gladiator and Elizabeth: The Golden Age) is penning the script which focuses on the last days of Britain’s colonial rule in India and the symbolic end of Britain’s status as a world superpower. The story 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.
Filming is set to begin early next year on location in India. Universal will distribute.
On a side note you can read an old interview I did with Joe Wright for Pride and Prejudice and get a peek at the way RopeofSilicon used to look right here.
