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http://www.xpress4me.com/life/pulse/celebrity/20004653.htmlHow’s your Hollywood project Shantaram coming along? We were set to start the shoot on February 2. I have devoted literally a whole year of my life to the creation of this film and it is in very good shape. It is not fully cast, the writers’ strike in Hollywood is quite crippling in its impact in the sense that a script can not be changed in any way or improvised. It must be fully locked before you enter production.
With a film of such magnitude, costing $93 million, none of us felt good about the fact that we could go in without changing a single word. Why give ourselves that artificial pressure, so we’re waiting for the bloody strike to be resolved and we will get going. Everyone from Johnny Depp to Warner Brothers and myself are deeply committed to the film. We expect to start in the fall of 2008.