Indian author Salman Rushdie is foraying into the showbiz world by scripting and producing TV drama Next People.
The writer, whose Booker prize winning book Midnight’s Children is being adapted by Deepa Mehta as Winds of Change, is developing the hour-long drama for the pay cable.
The show documents the radical transformation in contemporary American life — from politics and religion to technology, science and sexuality.
Rushdie will write the initial script and executive produce with Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner and Shelley McCrory of UK-based Working Title, the shingle where the show is attached, the Variety reported.
The famous author is not new to limelight. He was in hiding for much of the 1990s following a death threat against him by Islamic fundamentalists over his controversial book The Satanic Verses. He is an occasional TV talkshow guest and has been a panellist on HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher besides hosting an episode of PBS chatshow ‘Charlie Rose’ in 2006. He is also working as a co-scriptwriter on the Midnight’s Children book with Mehta.
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Knightley to be Tinker Bell in new Peter Pan
London: —PTI Hollywood beauty Keira Knightley will play the thumb-sized fairy, Tinker Bell, in a new Peter Pan prequel movie.
The 25-year-old actress will voice the character in the Neverland film which will be released this summer.
The Pirates of the Caribbean star will record the part shortly and will join a cast which already includes Anna Friel, Rhys Ifans, Bob Hoskins and Charles Dance, reported Daily Mail online.
Knightley, who split from her boyfriend Rupert Friend in December, leads a colony of tree-dwelling spirits in the film, which imagines a world before J.M. Barrie’s classic tale begins.
Rhys Ifans plays Hook, the mentor of a gang of young pickpockets which includes Peter (Charlie Rowe), who steal a magical treasure which transports them to Neverland.