Los Angeles:
'Spider Man' star TobeyMaguire will join Indian actor Irrfan Khan and Tabu in AngLee'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 filmmakerAng Lee, who is shooting the film in India.
The storycenters on a 16-year-old Indian boy, playedby Suraj Sharma, whose passage to a new life in America aboarda freighter ends in a shipwreck in the Pacific. He is left tofend for himself on a life raft with an orangutan, hyena andBengal tiger, the Hollywood Reporter said.
Irrfan, best known for his roles in 'A Mighty Heart'and 'Slumdog Millionaire', is playing the adult Pi, who isbeing interviewed by a reporter.
Maguire is playing narrator Nick Carraway in BazLurhmann'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 filmmakerAng Lee, who is shooting the film in India.
The storycenters on a 16-year-old Indian boy, playedby Suraj Sharma, whose passage to a new life in America aboarda freighter ends in a shipwreck in the Pacific. He is left tofend for himself on a life raft with an orangutan, hyena andBengal tiger, the Hollywood Reporter said.
Irrfan, best known for his roles in 'A Mighty Heart'and 'Slumdog Millionaire', is playing the adult Pi, who isbeing interviewed by a reporter.
Maguire is playing narrator Nick Carraway in BazLurhmann's adaptation of 'The Great Gatsby'.
