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Life of Pi to finally hit the big screen?

by Aaron Hotfelder (RSS feed) on Feb 26th 2009 at 12:30PM

The critically-acclaimed bestseller (yes, such a thing exists) Life of Pi is another step closer to finally hitting the big screen, according to Entertainment Weekly. Ang Lee, the director of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Brokeback Mountain, is said to be in talks to direct the long-awaited film adaptation of the 2001 allegorical novel by Yann Martel.

Lee is seeking a new screenplay adaptation of the book, which tells the story of an Indian boy's adventures aboard a lifeboat accompanied by a Bengal tiger, an orangutan, a hyena, and a zebra. Several directors, including M. Night Shyamalan, have been attached to the project in the past, but Martel, the book's author, is excited to see Lee's take on the book.

"If Fox closes a deal with Ang Lee, I'll be very happy," Martel said to the Globe and Mail. "He's a surperb director with a varied and dazzling output... He'd do a great job with Life of Pi."

[Hat tip to World Hum's trivia extraordinaire, Eva Holland]

Filed under: Arts and Culture, India

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