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The National | Nov 20, 2012 | 2:11

Filming Life of Pi

Yann Martel’s Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi doesn’t seem like a movie in the making, but a studio devoted $100 million to the project and lined up director Ang Lee. Eli Glasner reports.

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