First Look at Ang Lee’s ‘Life of Pi’
The first image from Ang Lee’s adaptation of Yann Martel’s best-selling novel, Life of Pi, is online. The main question surrounding the movie is whether the story will be compelling enough on the silver screen given that the story centers on an Indian boy from Pondicherry who survives 227 days after a shipwreck, while stranded on a boat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger.
We do know that Lee is using CGI for the tiger and from our first glimpse at the movie, it looks surprisingly good. Newcomer Suraj Sharma plays the protagonist, Piscine Molitor “Pi” Patel while Irrfan Khan will take on the role of the adult Pi. Tobey Maguire and Gérard Depardieu are part of the supporting cast.
Check out the picture below (via The Playlist) and let us know what you think! Life of Pi will hit theaters on December 21st.
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Not sure but Lee might be a real master… I’ll probably give it a try since the story is original.
Certainly a challenging premise to put on the silver screen. I don’t know if I’m a Ang Lee fan or not…
Who’s Richard Depardieu?? Gerard’s son? In any case, I might give this a shot, looks pretty intriguing and Ang Lee generally does great work.
Oups, I meant Gérard naturally. Sacrebleu!
Ahah, well you corrected my ‘Lawless’ post, I thought I’d return the favor
ahah touche!
Hope it’s good. The book sounded right wierd though.
Yea, I don’t know how you sustain attention for an entire movie with that kind of premise but we will see…
I hope he’s got a year’s supply of raw steaks for that tiger under that tarp. LOL
Lol he better or he might as well jump in the water and drown ahah
I’m hoping this one makes me some sweet FD points
Maybe…
Doubt it will be a box office juggernaut but awards-wise maybe…
Yeah, but i think it i likely to get a good RT score and will probably do decent at the box office. I am mainly betting on the Great Gatsby to be Tobey’s main point earner tho
Yep, this is either going to be really really cool, or really really terrible. I’m hoping for the former.
Yea, I guess we will know soon, when a trailer hits.
This does look good but please, I hope it doesn’t become terrible.
That doesn’t look bad for a CGI tiger.
Yea not bad at all. But I guess we need to see it in motion to correctly judge whether it will look good.
Didn’t know anything about the book before reading this post, but that is a cool image. I like Ang Lee, so I’ll probably check this out.
I’m in the same boat as Eric… looks pretty nifty.
I love Ang Lee, so I’m probably going to see this. Looks like at the very least it will have strong visuals.
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