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Tuesday, 03 March 2009

Ang Li May Direct Life of Pi

Life of PiAng Lee is in talks to direct "Life of Pi," the Fox 2000 adaptation of Yann Martel's coming-of-age survival tale.

Novel revolves around a youth who is the lone survivor of a sunken freighter and winds up sharing a lifeboat with a hyena, an injured zebra, an orangutan and a hungry Bengal tiger.

 

The novel, which won the Man Booker Prize, was a global publishing phenomenon when Fox 2000's Elizabeth Gabler acquired rights to the tome. Gil Netter is producing.

 

The project has been through several incarnations, first with scribe Dean Georgaris, then M. Night Shyamalan. Lee will supervise a new script. Studio will hire a writer shortly.

 

The project was most recently developed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, who wrote a script with his "Amelie" collaborator Guillaume Laurent.

Lee, who last directed "Lust, Caution" and "Brokeback Mountain," most recently completed "Taking Woodstock," an adaptation of the Tom Monte book. Focus Features releases the film in August.

POSTED BY: michelle AT 07:58 am   |  Permalink   |  2 Comments  |  E-mail this
Comments:
This was an excellent book to read and I can't wait to see the movie - especially how they end it - trying not to give anything away here but there is a twist at the end that I would love to see in vision.
Posted by dolly on 03/03/2009 20:50:16
I agree. Its going to be interesting to see how the whole thing ends. I never excpected a paradigm shift in the direction of the story but the ending really sent me reeling. a great book and i'm sure it will be an even better movie.
Posted by mark on 06/20/2009 17:11:15

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