Ang Lee Finds A Lead And Budget For The Life Of Pi Will Indeed Shoot The Film In 3D

Ang Lee Finds A Lead And Budget For ‘The Life Of Pi’, Will Indeed Shoot The Film In 3D

By Russ Fischer/Oct. 25, 2010 8:01 pm EST

USA Today says that Mr. Lee has cast Suraj Sharma, a high schooler from Delhi and newcomer to acting, as Pi Patel, the teen who, after a shipwreck, is left floating in the middle of the sea in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger, zebra, hyena and orangutan.

There’s a sort of joke buried in the report as it opens with a quote from the director, who says,

But is that no one should spend only $50m, or more than $50m? Regardless, the budget is over $50m at this point, a portion of which will be put to shooting the film natively in 3D.

I thought [The Life of Pi] was great movie material, but no one in their right mind should spend $50 million on this…It’s too complex.