Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children to be Filmed

From The Guardian by Denis Seguin:
"Rushdie's 'unfilmable' Midnight's Children heads for silver screen" —

Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie's panoramic 1981 allegory of the birth of modern India, is heading for the big screen. Deepa Mehta is to direct and co-write the adaptation with the author, and the film is expected to start production in 2010, it was announced in New York yesterday.