JIM SHERIDAN TO HELM 18TH CENTURY SET EPIC MOVIE ADAPTATION OF MARGUERITE HENRY'S NOVEL KING OF THE WIND

   KING OF THE WIND  

PERIOD SET MOVIE ADAPTATION

Jim Sheridan will helm the adaptation

Six time Academy Award nominee Jim Sheridan is set to direct a big screen adaptation of Marguerite Henry's novel KING OF THE WIND as a historical drama about an 18th century Arabian colt that would go on to sire the modern thoroughbred bloodline. As Variety reports, the film retraces the path of the so-called Darley stallion from the stables of the Moroccan sultan through to the courts of England and France. The Irish director plans to shoot the project in the Middle East and North Africa, promising a unique slant tied to the underexplored perspective of the horse itself. He said he will try to make the animal as human as possible.