The project is described as having shades of “La Femme Nikita” and the “Bourne” movies. The story centers on a 14-year-old Eastern European girl who has been raised by her father to be a cold-blooded killing machine. She connects with a French family, forms a friendship with their daughter and goes through the pangs of adolescence. When the girl is dragged back to her father’s world and discovers that she was bred as a killing machine in a CIA prison camp, she must fight her way to a free life.

Currently Joe Wright was in the middle of pre-production on the novel adaptation called Indian Summer until it got put on an indefinite hold. Apparently there were some battles with the budget that went and helped bring the feature on hold.

Helmer Joe Wright had been prepping the pic, an adaptation of Alex von Tunzelmann’s book about the last days of Britain’s colonial rule of India and the symbolic end of Blighty’s status as a world superpower. Blanchett was cast as Edna Mountbatten, wife of Lord Mountbatten, who was the last viceroy of the British Indian Empire and oversaw the country’s transition to independence in 1947 (Variety).

There were several factors that took part with Universal making this decision, one of them being the pure complications of filming within India. With these road bumps, this novel adaptation is surely to seep straight into development hell. Actress Cate Blanchett just recently completely filming Ridley Scott’s “Robin Hood”. Director Joe Wright, who helmed features like “The Soloist”and “Atonement”, must be on the lookout for more work with “Indian Summer” being the only film he would be working on recently.