Hollywood
production
house
Universal
Pictures
has
reportedly
expressed
its
hope
that
Cate
Blanchett
starrer
Indian
Summer
would
go
into
production
only
after
the
script,
budget
and
cast
are
all
in
place.
The
movie
was
to
be
made
on
the
controversial
subject
the
Edwina
Mountbatten-Jawaharlal
Nehru
romance.
Earlier,
the
director
Joe
Wright
had
put
the
movie
on
hold
by
saying,
“We
were
in
between
a
rock
and
a
hard
place.
The
Indian
government
wanted
us
to
make
less
of
the
love
story
while
the
studio
wanted
us
to
make
more
of
the
love
story." But
now
the
official
word
from
the
Universal
Pictures
on
Thursday
afternoon
has
made
it
clear
that
it
would
develop
the
movie
in
future.
“I
have
a
statement
on
the
making
of
Indian
Summer.
The
official
word
from
the
Universal
spokesman
is:
Indian
Summer
is
continuing
to
be
developed,
but
will
not
go
into
production
until
the
script,
budget
and
cast
are
all
in
place." Times
of
India
quotes
Alice
Clapperton,
International
Publicity
coordinator,
Universal
Pictures,
saying.
However,
the
much-hyped
Hollywood
movie
Indian
Summer
was
shelved
off
due
to
spiralling
costs
and
battle
between
the
Indian
government
and
the
Hollywood
studio.
Hugh
Grant-Cate
Blanchett
starrer
movie
was
an
adaptation
of
British
historian
Alex
von
Tunzelmann's
2007
book
Indian
Summer:
The
Secret
History
of
the
End
of
an
Empire'.
American
director
Joe
Wright
was
to
begin
filming
in
early
2010.