Oscar-winning screenwriter Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire) is set to adapt Michael Ondaatje’s 1987 novel In the Skin of a Lion for Serendipity Point Films, Film4 and Potboiler Films.
The novel explores the lives of immigrants who played a large role in the building of the city of Toronto in the early 1900s and focuses on romance and class conflict amidst the clash between immigrant workers and the ruling elite.
It also introduces the characters of Hana and David Caravaggio from Ondaatje’s 1992 novel The English Patient, which was adapted for the screen by Anthony Minghella in 1996 and won nine Academy Awards.
