The publishers of my novel The Land of Stories saw the film that night and asked me to adapt it into a novel.
After meeting her future husband in London, Jhabvala moved with him to his native India in the 1950s, where she was visited by Merchant and Ivory to ask if they could make a film of her 1960 novel The Householder.
He won the role after attending auditions advertised on a Jobcentre wall and was the first black actor to play the role in a film based on Emily Bronte's novel.
The rights to a film adaptation were purchased in the same year as the publication of the novel, in 2008.
The newspaper suggests the film's inability to find a distributor may be because the Booker Prize-winning novel was critical of former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi.
Steven Spielberg had planned to make the film adaptation of the novel Robopocalypse with Anne Hathaway this summer, with a date already set for April 24, 2014.
Fail Safe is a nuclear war story, considered to be the serious version of Dr Strangelove and the original novel was made into a film released just months after the Kubrick comedy.
Blume and her son assured the audience that changes were made to preserve the film's narrative flow, which can be challenging in adapting a first-person novel.
CNN: At 75, Judy Blume draws crowds with first film adaptation
Sir Salman, who's no stranger to controversy in India, was asked to stay away from promoting Midnight's Children, the film based on his novel, and a book fair in Calcutta on Wednesday following fears of fringe Muslim groups protesting against his presence.
Instead, the project was revived when two fans of the novel sought the approval of Taylor and Miller to start a campaign to finance the film via Kickstarter.com.
The body has money in a string of upcoming releases, including the film version of award-winning novel We Need to Talk about Kevin and Paddy Considine's directorial debut Tyrannosaur.
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