Wednesday October 21, 2009

PRODUCTION on Cate Blanchett’s new movie Indian Summer has been put on hold due to the current global economic downturn.

In the film, which was set to lift the lid on the final days of Britain’s colonial rule of India, Cate was cast as Edna Mountbatten, wife of Lord Mountbatten, who was the last viceroy of the British Indian Empire and oversaw the country’s transition to independence in 1947.

There were apparently also concerns over how intimate the portrayal of the relationship between Cate’s character and Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first post-independence prime minister, should be.

Atonement director Joe Wright has been preparing to make the movie.

“We were in between a rock and a hard place,” Wright told Variety.

“The Indian government wanted us to make less of the love story while the studio wanted us to make more of the love story.”

Both Wright and Cate will remain attached to the project for the foreseeable future.

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