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Stephen Frears Tapped to Helm ‘The Anarchy’ Series for Wiip, Roy Kapur Films (EXCLUSIVE)
Stephen Frears will direct the television adaptation of William Dalrymple's bestseller 'The Anarchy' for Wiip and India's Roy Kapur Films.
Dalrymple’s historical epic chronicles how the East India Company, described as “a dangerously unregulated start-up” operating from a small London office, executed the takeover of the entire Indian subcontinent, which at the time constituted more than one-fourth of the world’s GDP. “This is the most contemporary of themes: A ruthless businessman and his corporation seizing power, a group of oligarchs taking over a chunk of the world, asset-stripping, looting, manipulating the stock market, destroying whole economies for their profit. Green said: “Along with historical grandeur and the near mythic setting of this story, there’s something else that rings disturbingly familiar: an epic venality; wherein a handful of wealthy men to enhance their personal fortunes and gratify the extremes of their egos can manipulate the destiny of millions.”
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