Deepa Mehta will direct a film adaptation of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. The Guardian reported that Mehta and Rushdie, who will co-write the screenplay, hatched the project "when Rushdie dined at Mehta's home recently and she asked him if he would consider a collaboration." They plan to begin writing the screen adaptation in mid-March, and the film is expected to start production in 2010. Rushdie and David Hamilton, Mehta's partner, are acting as co-producers.

"With its bravura mix of historical events and inventive flights of fancy, the 650-page novel has long been seen as unfilmable," the Guardian noted. But Mehta disagrees: "If I was doing it myself it would be rather daunting. The fact that we like and respect each other is a good foundation for collaboration."