Filmmaker
Manuel
Collas
De
LaRoche
has
confirmed
the
news
and
was
quoted
saying,
"What
I
can
tell
you
is
that
Ajay
will
play
Ashoka,
the
great
king.
And
director
Rajkumar
Santoshi
will
helm
the
project."
The
singer
actress
Jennifer
Lopez
is
likely
to
play
the
female
lead
as
the
makers
feel
that
she
will
do
justice
to
the
role
of
an
Indian
queen.
However,
nothing
has
been
finalized
yet.
The
French
filmmaker
further
said
that
he
decided
to
work
with
filmmaker
Rajkumar
Santoshi
after
a
suggestion
from
his
astrologer
Nitin
Manchanda.
Filmmaker
Rajkumar
Santoshi
will
wrap
up
his
prior
commitments
before
starting
to
shoot
for
this
film.
He
was
quoted
saying,
"Yes,
that's
happening,
but
there
are
other
films
before
it
that
I
am
working
on."