Paramount Television Studios and Anonymous Content are getting ready to relocate the filming of ambitious Apple TV Plus series “Shantaram” to Thailand in July, Variety can reveal.
The 10-part series is based on Gregory David Roberts’ tome about a man on the run from prison in Australia, who flees to India in the hope of disappearing. There he builds a new life in the Mumbai underworld. Alexander Siddig recently joined the cast, opposite Charlie Hunnam.
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The long-gestating series began shooting in Australia in early 2020 under Justin Kurzel, but was shut down due to incomplete scripts and a change in showrunner. At that time, it was envisaged that production would move to India after the mid-year monsoon season.
In hindsight, the coronavirus pandemic has been far more disruptive to “Shantaram” than was anticipated. Had it continued in Australia, production would…
