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 storycentres 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.