Friday, April 08, 2011

Small Piece Of Pi

Tobey Maguire will reunite with his Ride With The Devil and The Ice Storm director, Ang Lee for Life Of Pi says Variety,

A 3-D adaptation of Yann Martel's beloved novel is about a boy stranded on a boat with a tiger, hyena, zebra and orangutan for 227 days after a shipwreck

Here's what the director had to say about Maguire's casting:
 
 
"I am delighted that Tobey has joined the film. He is one of my favorite actors that I have ever had the pleasure of working with and I am so excited that we get to work together for a third time."

Maguire's role,will consist only "of several days worth of work," and see him portraying a reporter who interviews the grown-up Pi (Irrfan Khan) Film newcomer Suraj Sharma plays the boyhood incarnation. Gerard Depardieu, Adil Hussain and Bollywood actress Tabu, who will play Pi's mother also star.

Lee is working from a script adapted by David Magee

Gil Netter and David Womark will produce the film

It is scheduled to arrive in theaters on Dec. 14, 2012.

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