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Continuing the relationship the fostered with his last film The Constant Gardener, Fernando Meirelles‘ next project has been picked up by Focus Features – they will most likely serve as the distributor and will handle international sales for the film which should see a 2008 release.
Scripted by Don McKellar (who should play a part in the film), the English-language film entitled Blindness is based on the 1995 novel by Portuguese Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago, is a philosophical thriller about an epidemic of blindness that sweeps through an unnamed contemporary city and pushes society to the brink of breakdown.
Variety reports that Niv Fichman of Toronto’s Rhombus Media, Sonoko Sakai of Tokyo’s Bee Vine Pictures and Andrea Barata Ribeiro of Sao Paulo, Brazil’s O2 Filmes will produce. London-based Potboiler Prods. principals Simon Channing Williams and Gail Egan will executive produce. Bel Berlinck of O2 Filmes will co-produce. Production is to begin next summer in Brazil and Canada.
