Ang Lee's Life of Pi opens 21 November 2012: USA, Canada, and--Taiwan

[Aloysius J. Gleek]

http://www.dgaquarterly.org/BACKISSUES/Spring2010/DGAInterviewAngLee.aspx

Interview in DGA (Directors Guild of America) Quarterly
By Glenn Kenny


(....)

Q [Glenn Kenny]: Your next film, The Life of Pi, based on the book by Yann Martel, is an adventure story about a boy stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific with a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan and a tiger. That sounds like a tricky film that will require lots of preparation.
A [Ang Lee]: I was very intrigued by the book when I read it in 2001 but didn’t think it could be made into a movie. Then when I was starting Woodstock, Fox 2000 approached me and said the project had become available again. This movie I think will be different because technically it’s difficult. It deals with animation, so previsualization will come into play. I hate previsualization; usually I don’t do storyboards. Sometimes I do, but I don’t follow them. Why would you cover the shot [as it was storyboarded] instead of finding something and trying to make that work for you? It doesn’t make much sense to me. But then directing doesn’t stand still. When you do shots that are expensive, you have to plan them out. You cannot afford the usual process. It’s exciting. It’s moviemaking. There are no rules.

[Aloysius J. Gleek]

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/04/ang_lee_adds_tobey_maguire_to.html

Ang Lee Adds
Tobey Maguire
to Pi
By: Kyle Buchanan
4/8/11 at 8:00 PM

Tobey Maguire is getting a piece of Pi.  The actor has just signed on to reunite with director Ang Lee -- for the third time, following their work together on The Ice Storm  and Ride With the Devil  -- in Life of Pi,  Lee's adaptation of the Yann Martel bestseller. Maguire will play a man interviewing a young boy named Pi, who spent 227 days on a boat with a Bengal tiger. Pi sure has been through a lot lately. [Variety]

[southendmd]

Note to Ang:  forget Toby, get Jake.

[Sophia]

Note to Ang:  forget Toby, get Jake.

LOL... couldn´t agree more. 

 

[Sophia]

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/04/ang_lee_adds_tobey_maguire_to.html

Ang Lee Adds
Tobey Maguire
to Pi
By: Kyle Buchanan
4/8/11 at 8:00 PM

Tobey Maguire is getting a piece of Pi.  The actor has just signed on to reunite with director Ang Lee -- for the third time, following their work together on The Ice Storm  and Ride With the Devil  -- in Life of Pi,  Lee's adaptation of the Yann Martel bestseller. Maguire will play a man interviewing a young boy named Pi, who spent 227 days on a boat with a Bengal tiger. Pi sure has been through a lot lately. [Variety]

Haha... and I thougtht it was a movie about the mathematic symbol PI: 3,14

[TOoP/Bruce]

Trailer for "Life of Pi" released...

It looks absolutely spectacular!

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=j9Hjrs6WQ8M[/youtube]

[Meryl]

Trailer for "Life of Pi" released...

It looks absolutely spectacular!

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=j9Hjrs6WQ8M[/youtube]

I agree!  This looks like a perfect subject for Ang Lee, too.  I'm really looking forward to it. 

[southendmd]

Thanks, Bruce.

I too am looking forward to this one.

I'm currently reading the novel and it's fascinating.  To my surprise, the first 100 pages or so have nothing to do with the lifeboat/tiger!  It's actually more about faith.  Perhaps the rest of the book is as well.

As Pi likes to exclaim, "Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu!"

[Jeff Wrangler]

With a title like that, I thought it was a history of mathematics.   

[Front-Ranger]

just learned that this movie will be featured in New York City's Film Festival debuting September 28:

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni34047227/