Danny Boyle Reteams with Slumdog scribe Simon Beaufoy For Maximum City
Posted on Monday, June 8th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Last week it was revealed that Danny Boyle had purchased the screen rights to Suketu Mehta‘s 2004 book Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found. The Telegraph has learned that Academy Award-winning Slumdog Millionaire scribe Simon Beaufoy has been hired to pen the screenplay adaptation. The screenwriter says that adapting a non fictional tale for the screen will require creative license, something the original author has granted him.
Maximum City is a non-fiction work, so it will be a huge challenge to find the story in it. It is a wonderful book and I used it in my initial research for Slumdog. There are some great characters in the book, but no stories, so my job will be to get the fictional out of a non-fictional story. Suketu is very understanding about my creative input and flexible about many changes. I will have to come up with something to bring together all the characters from the book into something that can make a film.
