‘Life Of Pi’ Next For Ang Lee

Back in February of this year it emerged that Ang Lee, director of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hulk, and Brokeback Mountain amongst many others, was in discussions to direct Life Of Pi, a movie based on the book by Yann Martel.

Now, according to Digital Spy, this is finally set to happen. The book was released in 2002 and a movie version has been in development ever since, but it finally looks set to be made. Lee announced:

“I think I’m going to do Life Of Pi. A little boy adrift at sea with a tiger. It’s a hard one to crack. I haven’t done casting yet, 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! This is two years ahead of me.”

So Lee is already working on the first draft and confident it’ll be good enough for the studio to give the go ahead. However, the movie is still two years away at the very least. Which, as we know, is enough time for circumstances to change significantly in Hollywood.

Life Of Pi is an allegorical story which sees a shipwrecked teenager stuck on a raft with an orangutan, a zebra, a hyena, and a Bengal tiger for as his only company. How on Earth that can be translated to a movie that isn’t as dull as ditch water remains to be seen. If anyone can pull it off then Ang Lee surely can.