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Roaring start ... Suraj Sharma stars in Ang Lee's Life of Pi, which will open the New York film festival next month. Photograph: Jake Netter/AP/20th Century Fox


Ang Lee's big-screen adaptation of the bestselling Yann Martel novel Life of Pi is to become the first 3D film to open the New York film festival next month.


Lee, who opened the festival in 1997 with The Ice Storm, joins Robert Altman, Pedro Almodóvar and François Truffaut in the rank of film-makers who opened the festival at least twice. The screening on 28 September, which raises the curtain on the festival's 50th edition, should help position Life of Pi for an awards season run.


"Life of Pi is a perfect combination of technological innovation and a strong artistic vision. Ang Lee has managed to make a deeply moving, engrossing work that will delight audiences as much as it will astonish them. We're enormously proud to have this film for our opening night for the 50th NYFF," said Richard Peña of festival organising body The Film Society of Lincoln Center.


Martel's 2002 Man Booker prize-winning novel chronicles the travails of a shipwrecked teenage boy stuck on a life raft with only a female orangutan, an injured zebra, a hungry hyena and a brooding Bengal tiger for company. Suraj Sharma, a 17-year-old student from Delhi, takes the lead role in the film adaptation after beating more than 3,000 other challengers to the role last year.


This year's New York film festival runs from 28 September to 14 October. Robert Zemeckis's Flight, described as a mystery drama, has already been announced as the closing night film. It stars Denzel Washington, Kelly Reilly, Bruce Greenwood and Don Cheadle in the story of a pilot's emergency landing that is called into question after it is discovered he had been drinking.





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Gudmundsdottir
14 August 2012 1:28PM




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14 August 2012 2:25PM




Oh, Life of Pi. The novel that proclaims in the first few pages: "This book will make you believe in God."

And then it fails.

I hope the movie will not be as horrible.




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14 August 2012 2:26PM




Not that I'll watch it.




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14 August 2012 2:30PM




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LeoToadstool
14 August 2012 3:37PM




I didn't think the novel was too bad: while not exactly as original as some may think, it had a bit of verve. The Booker has been awarded to far lesser works (The Sea? The White Tiger?)

That said, the pic at the top doesn't suggest good things. Looks like John Carter meets The Jungle Book.




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14 August 2012 4:15PM



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Or Das Boot meets Noah's Ark.




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14 August 2012 5:28PM




I actually meant LIfeboat meet Noah's Ark. LOL.




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DisorderJudge
14 August 2012 5:54PM




The book is ok. A nice read, the kind you'd expect to be taught at school, but the ending of the book (and the fact it 'borrowed' so much from another novel - Max and the Cats - has always left a sour taste in my mouth).




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14 August 2012 6:58PM





 [the] novel chronicles the travails of a shipwrecked teenage boy stuck on a life raft with only a female orangutan, an injured zebra, a hungry hyena and a brooding Bengal tiger for company.

It's a romantic comedy I take it.




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14 August 2012 7:38PM




The book wasn’t that impressive so I’m not holding out much hope for the film.
I believe Cloud Atlas is out sometime this year. Now that should be interesting.




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14 August 2012 7:59PM




Dr Dolittle and Cast Away and you get Life of Pi.




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14 August 2012 10:08PM




The trailer for this made the film look like it had been designed to show off the possibilities of 3D technology. Not good.




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Chris Icarus
14 August 2012 11:24PM




Let's hope the ludicrously over praised novel makes a better fist of being a moving picture. Although I admit to the possibility that I did not understand the novel and that it was more than vacuous, brainless, formula, pulp.But hey, if that's what passes for literature in English these days I'm going back to the 18th C and also our European friends




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SalmonRusty
15 August 2012 12:37AM




I saw the trailer for this and thought it looked visually stunning.

Though I'm not sure how good it will be with regards to how it translates from the book to the screen, story-wise.

(I haven't read the book).




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BapDeLaBap
15 August 2012 12:41AM




Looking forward to it.




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15 August 2012 2:37AM




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rowantheauthor
15 August 2012 7:16AM




why are so many people here so pompous or mealy mouthed about the novel ? To me, it combined charm,readability, humour, depth and simple delight. It brought a more literary book to millions who were attached by word of mouth and the booker win. all in all , a good thing. I can't wait to see the film.




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OshiMichi
15 August 2012 10:23AM



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It brought a more literary book to millions who were attached by word of mouth and the booker win. all in all , a good thing.

Mr. Coelho, is it not enough to offend us with your views on Ulysses that you have to tell us what books you admire as well. Go back to sleep, we'll let you know when you've won the war.




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BigDubliner
15 August 2012 2:19PM




I am surprised at the negative reaction to the book. I loved it. I suppose we can be grateful that we do not all like the same things.




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15 August 2012 4:53PM




It's a book that actually says: "This book will make you believe in God."

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mattcarey
15 August 2012 5:45PM




Er, isn't this book about how his Dad eats his family to stay alive except for the boy? Or did I get the wrong end of the stick?




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16 August 2012 12:33PM




Given how the story pads out and its essentially a parable I always took the "This book will make you believe in God" line to be a deliberate mis-direction which sat well alongside the unravelling of the narrators yarn.

No?




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Roaring start ... Suraj Sharma stars in Ang Lee's Life of Pi, which will open the New York film festival next month. Photograph: Jake Netter/AP/20th Century Fox


Ang Lee's big-screen adaptation of the bestselling Yann Martel novel Life of Pi is to become the first 3D film to open the New York film festival next month.


Lee, who opened the festival in 1997 with The Ice Storm, joins Robert Altman, Pedro Almodóvar and François Truffaut in the rank of film-makers who opened the festival at least twice. The screening on 28 September, which raises the curtain on the festival's 50th edition, should help position Life of Pi for an awards season run.


"Life of Pi is a perfect combination of technological innovation and a strong artistic vision. Ang Lee has managed to make a deeply moving, engrossing work that will delight audiences as much as it will astonish them. We're enormously proud to have this film for our opening night for the 50th NYFF," said Richard Peña of festival organising body The Film Society of Lincoln Center.


Martel's 2002 Man Booker prize-winning novel chronicles the travails of a shipwrecked teenage boy stuck on a life raft with only a female orangutan, an injured zebra, a hungry hyena and a brooding Bengal tiger for company. Suraj Sharma, a 17-year-old student from Delhi, takes the lead role in the film adaptation after beating more than 3,000 other challengers to the role last year.


This year's New York film festival runs from 28 September to 14 October. Robert Zemeckis's Flight, described as a mystery drama, has already been announced as the closing night film. It stars Denzel Washington, Kelly Reilly, Bruce Greenwood and Don Cheadle in the story of a pilot's emergency landing that is called into question after it is discovered he had been drinking.





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Gudmundsdottir
14 August 2012 1:28PM




You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee




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14 August 2012 2:25PM




Oh, Life of Pi. The novel that proclaims in the first few pages: "This book will make you believe in God."

And then it fails.

I hope the movie will not be as horrible.




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14 August 2012 2:26PM




Not that I'll watch it.




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14 August 2012 2:30PM




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LeoToadstool
14 August 2012 3:37PM




I didn't think the novel was too bad: while not exactly as original as some may think, it had a bit of verve. The Booker has been awarded to far lesser works (The Sea? The White Tiger?)

That said, the pic at the top doesn't suggest good things. Looks like John Carter meets The Jungle Book.




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14 August 2012 5:28PM




I actually meant LIfeboat meet Noah's Ark. LOL.




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14 August 2012 5:54PM




The book is ok. A nice read, the kind you'd expect to be taught at school, but the ending of the book (and the fact it 'borrowed' so much from another novel - Max and the Cats - has always left a sour taste in my mouth).




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14 August 2012 6:58PM





 [the] novel chronicles the travails of a shipwrecked teenage boy stuck on a life raft with only a female orangutan, an injured zebra, a hungry hyena and a brooding Bengal tiger for company.

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14 August 2012 7:38PM




The book wasn’t that impressive so I’m not holding out much hope for the film.
I believe Cloud Atlas is out sometime this year. Now that should be interesting.




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14 August 2012 7:59PM




Dr Dolittle and Cast Away and you get Life of Pi.




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14 August 2012 10:08PM




The trailer for this made the film look like it had been designed to show off the possibilities of 3D technology. Not good.




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14 August 2012 11:24PM




Let's hope the ludicrously over praised novel makes a better fist of being a moving picture. Although I admit to the possibility that I did not understand the novel and that it was more than vacuous, brainless, formula, pulp.But hey, if that's what passes for literature in English these days I'm going back to the 18th C and also our European friends




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SalmonRusty
15 August 2012 12:37AM




I saw the trailer for this and thought it looked visually stunning.

Though I'm not sure how good it will be with regards to how it translates from the book to the screen, story-wise.

(I haven't read the book).




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15 August 2012 12:41AM




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15 August 2012 2:37AM




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15 August 2012 7:16AM




why are so many people here so pompous or mealy mouthed about the novel ? To me, it combined charm,readability, humour, depth and simple delight. It brought a more literary book to millions who were attached by word of mouth and the booker win. all in all , a good thing. I can't wait to see the film.




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It brought a more literary book to millions who were attached by word of mouth and the booker win. all in all , a good thing.

Mr. Coelho, is it not enough to offend us with your views on Ulysses that you have to tell us what books you admire as well. Go back to sleep, we'll let you know when you've won the war.




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15 August 2012 2:19PM




I am surprised at the negative reaction to the book. I loved it. I suppose we can be grateful that we do not all like the same things.




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15 August 2012 4:53PM




It's a book that actually says: "This book will make you believe in God."

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Er, isn't this book about how his Dad eats his family to stay alive except for the boy? Or did I get the wrong end of the stick?




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16 August 2012 12:33PM




Given how the story pads out and its essentially a parable I always took the "This book will make you believe in God" line to be a deliberate mis-direction which sat well alongside the unravelling of the narrators yarn.

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Ang Lee's big-screen adaptation of the bestselling Yann Martel novel Life of Pi is to become the first 3D film to open the New York film festival next month.


Lee, who opened the festival in 1997 with The Ice Storm, joins Robert Altman, Pedro Almodóvar and François Truffaut in the rank of film-makers who opened the festival at least twice. The screening on 28 September, which raises the curtain on the festival's 50th edition, should help position Life of Pi for an awards season run.


"Life of Pi is a perfect combination of technological innovation and a strong artistic vision. Ang Lee has managed to make a deeply moving, engrossing work that will delight audiences as much as it will astonish them. We're enormously proud to have this film for our opening night for the 50th NYFF," said Richard Peña of festival organising body The Film Society of Lincoln Center.


Martel's 2002 Man Booker prize-winning novel chronicles the travails of a shipwrecked teenage boy stuck on a life raft with only a female orangutan, an injured zebra, a hungry hyena and a brooding Bengal tiger for company. Suraj Sharma, a 17-year-old student from Delhi, takes the lead role in the film adaptation after beating more than 3,000 other challengers to the role last year.


This year's New York film festival runs from 28 September to 14 October. Robert Zemeckis's Flight, described as a mystery drama, has already been announced as the closing night film. It stars Denzel Washington, Kelly Reilly, Bruce Greenwood and Don Cheadle in the story of a pilot's emergency landing that is called into question after it is discovered he had been drinking.





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Gudmundsdottir
14 August 2012 1:28PM




You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee




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Sunburst
14 August 2012 2:25PM




Oh, Life of Pi. The novel that proclaims in the first few pages: "This book will make you believe in God."

And then it fails.

I hope the movie will not be as horrible.




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Sunburst
14 August 2012 2:26PM




Not that I'll watch it.




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sezame
14 August 2012 2:30PM




Hmmm.




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LeoToadstool
14 August 2012 3:37PM




I didn't think the novel was too bad: while not exactly as original as some may think, it had a bit of verve. The Booker has been awarded to far lesser works (The Sea? The White Tiger?)

That said, the pic at the top doesn't suggest good things. Looks like John Carter meets The Jungle Book.




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sezame
14 August 2012 4:15PM



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Or Das Boot meets Noah's Ark.




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14 August 2012 5:28PM




I actually meant LIfeboat meet Noah's Ark. LOL.




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DisorderJudge
14 August 2012 5:54PM




The book is ok. A nice read, the kind you'd expect to be taught at school, but the ending of the book (and the fact it 'borrowed' so much from another novel - Max and the Cats - has always left a sour taste in my mouth).




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MartiniShaken1
14 August 2012 6:58PM





 [the] novel chronicles the travails of a shipwrecked teenage boy stuck on a life raft with only a female orangutan, an injured zebra, a hungry hyena and a brooding Bengal tiger for company.

It's a romantic comedy I take it.




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hugebiggingers
14 August 2012 7:38PM




The book wasn’t that impressive so I’m not holding out much hope for the film.
I believe Cloud Atlas is out sometime this year. Now that should be interesting.




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aurora9797
14 August 2012 7:59PM




Dr Dolittle and Cast Away and you get Life of Pi.




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14 August 2012 10:08PM




The trailer for this made the film look like it had been designed to show off the possibilities of 3D technology. Not good.




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Chris Icarus
14 August 2012 11:24PM




Let's hope the ludicrously over praised novel makes a better fist of being a moving picture. Although I admit to the possibility that I did not understand the novel and that it was more than vacuous, brainless, formula, pulp.But hey, if that's what passes for literature in English these days I'm going back to the 18th C and also our European friends




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SalmonRusty
15 August 2012 12:37AM




I saw the trailer for this and thought it looked visually stunning.

Though I'm not sure how good it will be with regards to how it translates from the book to the screen, story-wise.

(I haven't read the book).




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BapDeLaBap
15 August 2012 12:41AM




Looking forward to it.




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matildamatilda
15 August 2012 2:37AM




ang lee est toujour ang lee




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rowantheauthor
15 August 2012 7:16AM




why are so many people here so pompous or mealy mouthed about the novel ? To me, it combined charm,readability, humour, depth and simple delight. It brought a more literary book to millions who were attached by word of mouth and the booker win. all in all , a good thing. I can't wait to see the film.




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OshiMichi
15 August 2012 10:23AM



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It brought a more literary book to millions who were attached by word of mouth and the booker win. all in all , a good thing.

Mr. Coelho, is it not enough to offend us with your views on Ulysses that you have to tell us what books you admire as well. Go back to sleep, we'll let you know when you've won the war.




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BigDubliner
15 August 2012 2:19PM




I am surprised at the negative reaction to the book. I loved it. I suppose we can be grateful that we do not all like the same things.




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Sunburst
15 August 2012 4:53PM




It's a book that actually says: "This book will make you believe in God."

Come on!




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mattcarey
15 August 2012 5:45PM




Er, isn't this book about how his Dad eats his family to stay alive except for the boy? Or did I get the wrong end of the stick?




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LeoToadstool
15 August 2012 10:48PM



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Wasn't that a line of dialogue from the prologue though? (I agree it's a bit twee)




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SanMiguel
16 August 2012 12:33PM




Given how the story pads out and its essentially a parable I always took the "This book will make you believe in God" line to be a deliberate mis-direction which sat well alongside the unravelling of the narrators yarn.

No?




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klausdinger
16 August 2012 3:59PM




The book was essentially a showy conjuring trick, so an FX-laden 3D adaptation should suit.




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Roaring start ... Suraj Sharma stars in Ang Lee's Life of Pi, which will open the New York film festival next month. Photograph: Jake Netter/AP/20th Century Fox


Ang Lee's big-screen adaptation of the bestselling Yann Martel novel Life of Pi is to become the first 3D film to open the New York film festival next month.


Lee, who opened the festival in 1997 with The Ice Storm, joins Robert Altman, Pedro Almodóvar and François Truffaut in the rank of film-makers who opened the festival at least twice. The screening on 28 September, which raises the curtain on the festival's 50th edition, should help position Life of Pi for an awards season run.


"Life of Pi is a perfect combination of technological innovation and a strong artistic vision. Ang Lee has managed to make a deeply moving, engrossing work that will delight audiences as much as it will astonish them. We're enormously proud to have this film for our opening night for the 50th NYFF," said Richard Peña of festival organising body The Film Society of Lincoln Center.


Martel's 2002 Man Booker prize-winning novel chronicles the travails of a shipwrecked teenage boy stuck on a life raft with only a female orangutan, an injured zebra, a hungry hyena and a brooding Bengal tiger for company. Suraj Sharma, a 17-year-old student from Delhi, takes the lead role in the film adaptation after beating more than 3,000 other challengers to the role last year.


This year's New York film festival runs from 28 September to 14 October. Robert Zemeckis's Flight, described as a mystery drama, has already been announced as the closing night film. It stars Denzel Washington, Kelly Reilly, Bruce Greenwood and Don Cheadle in the story of a pilot's emergency landing that is called into question after it is discovered he had been drinking.





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Gudmundsdottir
14 August 2012 1:28PM




You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee




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14 August 2012 2:25PM




Oh, Life of Pi. The novel that proclaims in the first few pages: "This book will make you believe in God."

And then it fails.

I hope the movie will not be as horrible.




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Sunburst
14 August 2012 2:26PM




Not that I'll watch it.




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14 August 2012 2:30PM




Hmmm.




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LeoToadstool
14 August 2012 3:37PM




I didn't think the novel was too bad: while not exactly as original as some may think, it had a bit of verve. The Booker has been awarded to far lesser works (The Sea? The White Tiger?)

That said, the pic at the top doesn't suggest good things. Looks like John Carter meets The Jungle Book.




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14 August 2012 4:15PM



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14 August 2012 5:28PM




I actually meant LIfeboat meet Noah's Ark. LOL.




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DisorderJudge
14 August 2012 5:54PM




The book is ok. A nice read, the kind you'd expect to be taught at school, but the ending of the book (and the fact it 'borrowed' so much from another novel - Max and the Cats - has always left a sour taste in my mouth).




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MartiniShaken1
14 August 2012 6:58PM





 [the] novel chronicles the travails of a shipwrecked teenage boy stuck on a life raft with only a female orangutan, an injured zebra, a hungry hyena and a brooding Bengal tiger for company.

It's a romantic comedy I take it.




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hugebiggingers
14 August 2012 7:38PM




The book wasn’t that impressive so I’m not holding out much hope for the film.
I believe Cloud Atlas is out sometime this year. Now that should be interesting.




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aurora9797
14 August 2012 7:59PM




Dr Dolittle and Cast Away and you get Life of Pi.




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14 August 2012 10:08PM




The trailer for this made the film look like it had been designed to show off the possibilities of 3D technology. Not good.




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Chris Icarus
14 August 2012 11:24PM




Let's hope the ludicrously over praised novel makes a better fist of being a moving picture. Although I admit to the possibility that I did not understand the novel and that it was more than vacuous, brainless, formula, pulp.But hey, if that's what passes for literature in English these days I'm going back to the 18th C and also our European friends




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SalmonRusty
15 August 2012 12:37AM




I saw the trailer for this and thought it looked visually stunning.

Though I'm not sure how good it will be with regards to how it translates from the book to the screen, story-wise.

(I haven't read the book).




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BapDeLaBap
15 August 2012 12:41AM




Looking forward to it.




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