But the studio has yet to finalize a script, now being written by "Slumdog Millionaire" writer Simon Beaufoy.

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Right now I am writing a script on my own, but I talk to a collaborator for an hour a day.

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It may be one of the casualties of the auteur theory and the general solemnization of directors that some of the most talented people now just start shooting a script as if big ideas and directorial vision were enough to hold a movie together.

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