The Life of Pi set to be adapted by Ang Lee

Yann Martel's bestselling novel The Life of Pi is set to be made into a film.

According to reports, Oscar-winning director Ang Lee, famous for Brokeback Mountain and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, is in talks to adapt the Booker Prize-winning novel.

Earlier reports suggested that M Night Shyamalan had been set to write and direct the movie.

Lee is currently working on Taking Woodstock, starring Emile Hirsch and Demetri Martin.

The novel, which tells the story of a boy cast adrift on the ocean with a Bengal Tiger, has previously been described as "unfilmable" but as studio Fox 2000 is hiring a new screenwriter, it appears likely the project may go ahead.

Meanwhile, Sin City and Spy Kids director Robert Rodriguez is set to write and direct sci-fi thriller Nerverackers.

The movie will be set in 2085 and is due to come out in April next year.

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