TORONTO - Oscar-nominated filmmaker Deepa Mehta and celebrated writer Salman Rushdie are set to collaborate on a movie adaptation of Rushdie's book "Midnight's Children."
Mehta's producer, David Hamilton, says he, Mehta and Rushdie hashed out the plan over dinner earlier this year when the novelist was in Toronto to promote his latest book, "The Enchantress of Florence."
He says Mehta and Rushdie plan to co-write the screenplay in March and April of next year.
Production is set to begin in 2010.
Rushdie's Booker-prize winning novel "Midnight's Children" is set against the backdrop of India's blossoming independence.
Hamilton says Rushdie and Mehta met several years ago in New York when the novelist attended a screening of the Canadian director's celebrated "Water," which was nominated for a best foreign language film Oscar.
