White Mughals (Ralph Fiennes' next directorial venture)

White Mughals is listed on Ralph Fiennes' IMDb page under the "Projects in Development" category.

The White Mughals IMDb page lists Ralph Fiennes as the director, Nick Drake (scriptwriter for Romulus My Father) and William Dalrymple (writer of the original book from which the movie will be adapted) as the writers and Frank Doelger (producer of Game of Thrones) as its producer.

Here is the link to the White Mughals IMDb page:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2025724/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

And here's the link to the Amazon page of the book White Mughals:

http://www.amazon.com/White-Mughals-Betrayal-Eighteenth-Century-India/ dp/014200412X

I'm super, super excited about this movie. White Mughals is my favorite book, and Ralph Fiennes is my favorite actor. I loved Coriolanus and thought all the performances were fantastic. I'm sure with Ralph Fiennes directing, White Mughals will turn out to be just as awesome. Can't wait for it to finally get made! :)

Here's the synopsis of the book White Mughals, taken from its Amazon page:

"White Mughals is the romantic and ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that crossed and transcended all the cultural, religious and political boundaries of its time.

James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad when in 1798 he glimpsed Khair-un-Nissa—'Most excellent among Women'—the great-niece of the Nizam's Prime Minister and a descendant of the Prophet. Kirkpatrick had gone out to India as an ambitious soldier in the army of the East India Company, eager to make his name in the conquest and subjection of the subcontinent. Instead, he fell in love with Khair and overcame many obstacles to marry her—not least of which was the fact that she was locked away in purdah and engaged to a local nobleman. Eventually, while remaining Resident, Kirkpatrick converted to Islam, and according to Indian sources even became a double-agent working for the Hyderabadis against the East India Company."