Jean-Pierre Jeunet ("Amelie", "Alien Resurrection") is set to direct Fox 2000's adaptation of the Man Booker Prize-winning Yann Martel novel "Life of Pi" reports San Francisco Chronicle.
The story follows a 16-year-old boy's voyage from India to Canada, a trip that begins on a freighter carrying animals his father is transporting from the zoo. The ship sinks and the boy is the sole human survivor, sharing a lifeboat with a hyena, an injured zebra and a hungry tiger.
M. Night Shyamalan was given the assignment to helm the adaptation early on, only to exit because he wanted to make "Lady in the Water" first and the studio didn't want to wait. Alfonso Cuaron was next attached, but he opted to direct "Children of Men".
Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant have just begun writing with the hope of beginning production next summer. Jeunet already has been shown the Fox studio in Baja that houses the giant tank used in "Titanic" which has a strong possibility to host most of the shoot, the rest in India and other locations.
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