Director Ang Lee is adapting the book Life of Pi into a feature length film.

Speaking recently with Digital Spy, Lee mentioned that he’s recently turned in his first draft of the script, and that we can probably expect it in two years. He hasn’t thought about casting as of yet.

The story follows a young Indian boy who ends up stranded on a boat for 227 days with a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger. Something tells me they’re going to work extra hard to find the perfect child actor for this role, since he’s going to be the only human for most of its run time. The project has caught the attention of many directors, including M. Night Shyamlan, Alfonso Cuaron, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet since the novel by Yann Martel was released in 2001.

Sounds like a hard book to turn into a movie, but Ang Lee has a great sense of characters on screen. I have a lot of faith in him as a visual storyteller. He really digs into the hearts of the characters. This should be a good one.

Source: /Film

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