Talented and versatile Taiwanese director Ang Lee has been chatting with USA Today in regards to his plans for shooting the long-in-development adaptation of best-selling novel The Life of Pi.
He’s currently in pre-production on the film and intends to shoot it using 3D, although he acknowledges it will be a costly process.
“I know it’s a great burden on me, but the story kept haunting me, and 3D was the way for me to crack the book.”
The book (by Yann Martel) follows the journey of a young Indian boy (which 17-year-old Delhi high school student Suraj Sharma will make his debut playing) who survives 227 days out at sea, shipwrecked and stranded on a boat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger for company.
A film version has been on the cards for a while (with directors M. Night Shyamalan, Alfonso Cuarón and Jean-Pierre Jeunet all attached at various points) but fans of the book will now see Lee use the medium made famous by Avatar to hopefully enhance and enrich the story.
“The ocean is perfect for 3-D. I think it will change the way people experience the sea.”
