Peter Webber Charts "The Piano Tuner"

Screen reports that Peter Webber ("Girl with a Pearl Earring," "Hannibal Rising") will direct a film adaptation of author Daniel Mason's historical novel "The Piano Tuner".

Set in 1886 at the height of the British Empire, it follows a piano tuner who receives a strange request by the British War Office to deliver a rare grand piano to a legendary British Officer in the remote jungles of northeast Burma.

Gopi Sait, Sunaman Sood, Daria Jovicic and Rashaana Shah will produce.

Pre-production begins later this year.