Ang Lee will reportedly direct a movie adaptation of 'Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk'
鈥淟ife of Pi鈥� director Ang Lee will reportedly helm a movie adaptation of Ben Fountain鈥檚 acclaimed novel 鈥淏illy Lynn鈥檚 Long Halftime Walk.鈥�
The 2012 book centers on Billy, who served in Iraq, and the rest of his company as they are the guests of honor at a Super Bowl in Dallas. The book was widely critically acclaimed. Monitor fiction critic Yvonne Zipp, wrote of the novel, 鈥淔ountain's debut novel, after the award-winning 2006 short story collection, 鈥楤rief Encounters with Che Guevara,鈥� is inspiring comparisons with 鈥楥atch-22,鈥� and with good reason. Fountain delivers an absurdist portrait of the war and modern society painted with brush strokes laid as precisely and as viciously as a whip."聽
According to the , Simon Beaufoy of the 2008 movie 鈥淪lumdog Millionaire鈥� is adapting the book for the screen.
"The most important thing to me is storytelling and聽Billy Lynn鈥檚 Long Halftime Walk is a story that immediately gripped me," Lee said in a statement, according to .听
Lee was also behind such movies as the 1995 film 鈥淪ense and Sensibility,鈥� the 2000 movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," and 2005鈥檚 鈥淏rokeback Mountain."
