Ang Lee’s “Pi” Casts the Film’s Hero

Fox 2000’s bigscreen adaptation of Yann Martel’s tome “Life of Pi” is at last rowing off to sea, with Ang Lee set to start lensing the fantasy adventure early next year. After a worldwide talent search, Lee has cast 17-year-old newcomer Suraj Sharma in the iconic title role Fox will release the pic Dec. 14, 2012. Gill Netter is producing “Life of Pi,” which will be a large-scale, all-audience film. “Pi” tells the story of a boy who is lost at sea for 227 days in a lifeboat with three unusual and increasingly hungry companions–a bengal tiger named Richard Parker, a hyena, a zebra and an orangutan. He’s left stranded in the tiny boat after the ship carrying his family and his family’s zoo sinks, and must find a way to survive.
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