Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Ang Lee Confrims 'Life Of Pi' Is His Next Film

Ang Lee has confirmed to DS that The Life Of Pi will be his next project will be an adaptation of Yann Martel's Man Booker Prize-winning novel 'Life Of Pi' for Fox 2000, he told DS:
"I think I'm going to do Life Of Pi," Lee revealed to DS. "A little boy adrift at sea with a tiger. It's a hard one to crack."

Lee noted that the project is still at the scripting stages and he hasn't started thinking about who will play the lead character, Indian boy Piscine 'Pi' Molitor Patel.

"I haven't done casting yet," he said. "I'm delivering the first draft. I think I've cracked the structure of the movie and I'll figure out how to do it later. How exactly I'm going to do it, I don't know!"

Asked when the movie is expected is arrive, the director replied: "This is two years ahead of me."