MUMBAI: Shekhar Kapur has been signed to direct The Three Lawrences for K5 International and Convergence Entertainment.

Shekhar Kapur will produce the film along with K5‘s Oliver Simon and Daniel Bauer.

The film, a thriller is due to go into production this autumn is about a police officer, a junkie and a cave-dwelling recluse, whose lives are changed by a brutal murder during a fierce storm.

The script of the film has been written by Iris Yamashita, and Tim Kwok, Ksana Golod.

K5 will handle worldwide sales of the film.

Head of sales at K5, Bill Stephens felt that it was a ‘great honour‘ to work with Kapur again having been previously associated with the director‘s earlier releases Bandit Queen and Elizabeth.