"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" director Alfonso Cuarón is in talks to bring Yann Martel's bestseller 'Life of Pi' to the big screen reports RTE Interactive.
"Signs" and "The Sixth Sense" Director M Night Shyamalan had been previously linked to the film but instead chose to make "Lady in the Water" his next film for Warner Bros. Cuarón's agent contacted Fox 2000 Pictures to offer the director's services for "Pi" and it looks like they've accepted. He is currently casting "Children of Men" at Universal.
Martel won the Booker Prize for the novel which follows precocious son of a zookeeper who is raised in Pondicherry, India, where he tries on various faiths for size, attracting "religions the way a dog attracts fleas." Planning a move to Canada, his father packs up the family and their menagerie and they hitch a ride on an enormous freighter. After a harrowing shipwreck, Pi finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean, trapped on a 26-foot lifeboat with a wounded zebra, a spotted hyena, a seasick orangutan, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
Thanks to 'Rich'.
