Producer Ronnie Screwvala under his home banner, RSVP Movies will collaborate with Ramesh Krishnamoorthy’s Global One Studios for a series based on the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy.
The companies have optioned the audio-visual rights to eminent authors’ Dominique Lapierre and Javier Moro’s 2001 book, Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World’s Deadliest Industrial Disaster.
The RSVP movies confirmed the news on social media. It said, “Celebrating the spirit of human endeavour against all odds with an epic, edge of the seat story that needs to be told! #FridaysWithRSVP #DominiqueLapierre @javiermoro123 @RonnieScrewvala @SanayaIZohrabi #RameshKrishnamoorthy”
The second Tweet read, “RSVP is elated to announce our option of the screen adaptation rights to Dominique Lapierre and Javier Moro’s book ‘Five Past Midnight in Bhopal’!”
A cloud of toxic gas escaped from an American pesticide plant, in 1984, in the central Indian city of Bhopal. It killed and injured thousands of people. In “Five Past Midnight in Bhopal” Lapierre and Moro weave hundreds of characters, eyewitness accounts, and adventures into a human tapestry.
Screwvala, who previously served as head of Disney India, produced “Uri: The Surgical Strike,” India’s highest grossing war film with $48 million. RSVP has another war film “Pippa,” starring Ishaan Khatter from Mira Nair’s Toronto-closer “A Suitable Boy,” and love story “Sitara” in the works.
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