news 2012, adaptation to life of Pi

Life to Pi

David Magee, the man who's life has adapted the book into a film Adrift Pi, said the first time he read the book do not have the slightest intention to make this book into a film, six years later, his agent called him asking if he had bequeathed him this book, then when he reconsidered the idea of ​​bringing the book to the movie, but like before, it took three years to make this film.
Made during the three years?, Magee and a nephew we traveled to Asia, where they traveled around temples, where in some places they were going, were to find new scenes.
In the end they decided it had to be a boy and a tiger vengala their characters, where the protagonist spends more than 200 days at sea, which is fascinating and ferocious animals.
It considers the history of the story, where the tiger can symbolize God.
In three and a half years were over 170 draft, and a time when you've Magee and his nephew Ang said they did not know what to do, which he answered that he had not done. Then both felt the same boat and it started to inspire.
One drawback of the adapting cost to fix was the relation Pi and the tiger, because after all, a trige for us is a cat and not a genuine friend.

vocabulary:
 slightest:menor
genuine:genuí