Varietyreports that Ang Li may direct a movie based on Yann Martel's Booker Prize winning novel, Life of Pi.
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.
Variety says the project has "been through several incarnations." M. Night Shyamalan was even attached at one point. It doesn't sound like sure thing yet and a screenwriter has not yet been hired.
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