M. Night Shyamalan, bekend van ondermeer "The Sixth Sense" en "Signs", praat momenteel met Fox 2000 over het regisseren en produceren van de film "Piece of Pi". Dit verhaal is gebaseerd op een internationale bestseller van Yann Martel.

[eng]The novel, which won the Man Booker Prize for 2002, is a magical adventure story centering on Pi Patel, the precocious son of a zookeeper. Residents of Pondicherry, India (Shyamalan's home town) the family decides to move to Canada, hitching a ride on a freighter. After a shipwreck, Pi is found adrift in the Pacific on a 26-foot lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan and a Bengal tiger.[/eng]
M. Night Shyamalan zal binnenkort beginnen met de opnames van "The Village" dus we zullen nog even moeten wachten.