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Tobey Maguire Cast In ‘Life Of Pi’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday April 8, 2011 @ 4:33pm PDTTags: Ang Lee, Casting, Fox, Life of Pi, Life of Pi Casting, Movie Deals, Movies, Tobey Maguire, Yann Martel

Tobey Maguire has been cast in Ang Lee’s novel adaptation Life of Pi, the Fox movie that is shooting in India ahead of a December 2012 bow. Yann Martel’s bestseller centers on an Indian boy who escapes a shipwreck but is stranded on a life raft with a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena and a tiger. Maguire will play a writer who interviews the boy as an adult. Maguire, who will play Nick Carraway in Baz Luhrmann’s 3D The Great Gatsby for Warner Bros, also appeared in the Lee-directed movies The Ice Storm and Ride With The Devil.

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Director Ang Lee Finds His ‘Life Of Pi’ Guy

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday October 25, 2010 @ 7:38pm PDTTags: Ang Lee, Fox 2000, Life of Pi Casting, Movie Deals, Movies, Yann Martel
Mike Fleming

Director Ang Lee has completed a worldwide talent search for Life of Pi and has cast newcomer Suraj Sharma to play the lead role of 16-year old Pi Patel, a youth who gets stranded for 227 days through shark-infested waters … Read More »

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