June 3, 2010

Fox Searchlight tries to go the 'Slumdog' route again...

...according to Collider:

In what some may see as an attempt to recapture the Oscar/box office magic of Slumdog Millionaire, Fox Searchlight will adapt the Deborah Moggach novel These Foolish Things for the screen. With the new title The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, the film will follow “a movie about a group of British senior citizens who travel to India to live out their dotage — an outsourcing, after a fashion— and find a new lease on life.”

24 Frames reports that Fox Searchlight is reaching out to Julie Christie, Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson, and Peter O’Toole to star. (For those keeping track, there are twenty Oscar nominations in that group.) Meanwhile, Slumdog star Dev Patelis in talks to co-star, and John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) is on the top of the studio’s director wishlist. Hit the jump for the synopsis for These Foolish Things.

-I wonder if they can catch lightning in a bottle twice...thoughts?

4 comments:

  1. It's certainly got an interesting cast...

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  2. I'll see anything Peter O'Toole is in, so they've sold at least one ticket.

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  3. it has all the ingredients for a great movie. it all depends on the adapted screenplay.

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