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Tobey Maguire Joins Ang Lee’s Life of Pi
Casting update! This time, we’re here for Ang Lee’s upcoming adaptation of Booker Prize winning novel by Yann Martel’s, titled Life of Pi. According to the latest reports, Tobey Maguire will star in the movie that is currently shooting in India, where he will star alongside Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain and Gerard Depardieu.
No surprise at all, we already know the pair first worked together on The Ice Storm. So, there’s no doubt they make a good team together.
But, it looks that Maguire is on board for a smaller role this time. Apparently he will play the reporter in a bit role consisting of several days worth of work. Sharma is set to star as a 16-year-old Indian boy, while Khan is playing the adult Pi, who is being interviewed by a Maguire’s character.
Gerard Depardieu, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain and Tabu Join Ang Lee’s Life of Pi
We already wrote about Ang Lee’s upcoming project, Life of Pi, so you’re familiar with some story details.
Today, we’re here for a little casting update, because Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain and Gerard Depardieu have joined the cast.
They join newcomer Suraj Sharma, who will play the title role in the big screen adaptation of Yann Martel‘s bestselling novel.
Here’s the Life of Pi synopsis part:
“The son of a zookeeper, Pi Patel has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior and a fervent love of stories. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks.
Ang Lee’s Life of Pi Budget Too High?
Yeah, we already had a little chat about Ang Lee‘s plans for adaptation of Booker Prize winning novel Life of Pi, so you probably remember that we also mentioned it’s going to be filmed in 3D, right?
Well, now, guess what? Something went wrong and it looks that guys from Fox think Lee’s vision for “Pi” is a little expensive for their tastes (remember the budget was reportedly estimated at $70 million).
Story goes like this: “The precocious son of a zookeeper, 16-year-old Pi Patel is raised in Pondicherry, India, where he tries on various faiths for size, attracting “religions the way a dog attracts fleas.” Planning a move to Canada, his father packs up the family and their menagerie and they hitch a ride on an enormous freighter.
After a harrowing shipwreck, Pi finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean, trapped on a 26-foot lifeboat with a wounded zebra, a spotted hyena, a seasick orangutan, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker (”His head was the size and color of the lifebuoy, with teeth”).
Ang Lee’s Life of Pi In 3D
Ok, we must admit that this sound’s little bit weird, but still, we have this kind of information to share with you – Ang Lee’s adaptation of Booker Prize winning novel Life of Pi is going to be filmed in 3D.
Surprised? Well, we all are, but still, we’re happy to hear this is going to be Lee’s next movie, since we all know that the project had already passed through multiple directors including Dean Georgaris, M. Night Shyamalan, Alfonso Cuaron and Jean-Pierre Jeneut.
So, looks like Life of Pi, a fantasy adventure novel written by Yann Martel, is going to be Lee’s first 3D film. The project is now scouting locations Taiwan and Pondicherry, and it will be a big-budget film with a price tag of over $70 million.
Oscar-Winner Ang Lee May Direct “Life of Pi”
Yann Martel‘s coming-of-age survival tale “Life of Pi” was a huge bestseller in 2000 and the film rights were snapped up almost immediately. Eight years after its publication and six years after it was optioned by the specialty film division of Twentieth Century Fox, “Life of Pi” has a new prospective director: Ang Lee, the Chinese-born auteur who won an Oscar for his direction of “Brokeback Mountain.”
Previous directors attached to the project include Dean Georgaris, M. Night Shyamalan and Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
