HONG KONG - Ang Lee's assistant says the Oscar-winning filmmaker is in talks to direct a movie adaptation of Canadian writer Yann Martel's best-seller `Life of Pi.'
David Lee said in an e-mail to The Associated Press Thursday that `the discussion has just begun.'
The Hollywood trade publication Variety, which first reported the talks on Tuesday, said Fox 2000 Pictures owns the movie rights and Gil Netter is producing.
Calls to Netter's office Thursday went unanswered.
`Life of Pi' is a fable about a boy and a tiger who survive a shipwreck.
It won Britain's most prestigious literary award, the Booker Prize, in 2002.
