"Life of Pi" has been struggling to find a director for a while now.  It's passed through Dean Georgaris, the M. Night Shaymalan (thank you, God), and most recently with Jean-Pierre Jeunet.  But it may finally have its savior in Ang Lee.  The director, who most recently completed "Taking Woodstock" is in talks to helm the project.  Considering that it's usually not more than two years between Lee's films, I'd say he would know how to get it made.  Then again…

The plot is tough.  I haven't read the book, but if this plot synopsis is all I need to know (and plot synopses are the best way to understand any work of literature), then it's understandable while other directors have been unable to get the book to the big screen.  According to Variety, the novel revolves around a youth who is the lone survivor of a sunken freighter and winds up sharing a lifeboat with a hyena, an injured zebra, an orangutan and a hungry Bengal tiger.  Doesn't this actually sound like one of those riddles about how you get animals from one side of a river to the other without eating one another?