The Pi Life

So how do you adapt for the screen a critically acclaimed absurdist and deeply philosophical story that carried off the Booker prize amongst many of its gongs? Well, in Hollywood, you simply employ the Tomb Raider 2 writer to do it. While we'll be the first to admit we haven't yet seen Lara's return and are not able to even comment on scribe Dean Georgaris' presumably very large talent, a shudder ran down Empire Online's collective spine this morning when we heard that Canadian author Yan Martel's book "The Life of Pi" was to be adapted for the screen by Fox 2000 Pictures. A novel which not only defies categorisation but makes the word 'unique' seem wholly unsatisfactory, Martel's book isn't quite the first novel you'd think of when it comes to an easy source for a lucrative flick. For those who haven't read it, let us give you a quick taste: the plot, if that's the right word, concerns the oceanic wanderings of a small boy