Los Angeles: Spider Man star Tobey Maguire will join Indian actor Irrfan Khan and Tabu in Ang Lee's movie adaptation of Yann Martell's bestselling novel.
The American star will play a scribe in a small role, who interviews the grown-up Pi.
The film is being directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Ang Lee, who is shooting the film in India.
The story centers on a 16-year-old Indian boy, played by Suraj Sharma, whose passage to a new life in America aboard a freighter ends in a shipwreck in the Pacific. He is left to fend for himself on a life raft with an orangutan, hyena and Bengal tiger, the Hollywood Reporter said.
Irrfan, best known for his roles in 'A Mighty Heart' and 'Slumdog Millionaire', is playing the adult Pi, who is being interviewed by a reporter.
Maguire is playing narrator Nick Carraway in Baz Lurhmann's adaptation of The Great Gatsby.
The American star will play a scribe in a small role, who interviews the grown-up Pi.
The film is being directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Ang Lee, who is shooting the film in India.
Irrfan, best known for his roles in 'A Mighty Heart' and 'Slumdog Millionaire', is playing the adult Pi, who is being interviewed by a reporter.
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