11/2/2009

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Brokeback Mountain director Ang Lee will direct the film adaptation of the award-winning book "Life of Pi."

Rachel Kolb

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The film adaptation of Yann Martel's "Life of Pi" will be directed by [Ang Lee.](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000487/)  
  
Lee, who is best known for ["Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon"](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190332/) and ["Brokeback Mountain,"](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388795/) will take on the [difficult task](http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/10/29/ang-lee-updates-progress-on-life-of-pi/) of adapting the award-winning book for the screen.  
  
[The story](http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/news/a184064/life-of-pi-next-for-ang-lee.html) mostly takes place on a small lifeboat with a young Indian boy named Piscine "Pi" Molitor Patel and a tiger. Lee will face similar challenges that the Robert Zemeckis/Tom Hanks film ["Cast Away"](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162222/) also faced, specifically the challenge of creating drama with only one human character for most of the film.  
  
"Life of Pi" has attracted a number of directors including [Jean-Pierre Jeunet](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000466/) ("Amelie"), [Alfonso Cuaron](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0190859/) ("Children of Men"), and [M. Night Shyamalan](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0796117/) ("The Village").  
  
["Life of Pi"](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454876/) is currently scheduled for a 2011 theatrical release.