Apparently David Magee, the screenwriter behind the Life of Pi movie, declared the book “unfilmable” before he was asked to adapt it.
Curiosities
First Cloud Atlas, Now This
By Thomas Beckwith posted at 10:00 am on November 26, 2012 1
at 11:26 am on November 26, 2012
Seems that they “solved” the “unfilmable” problem with CGI and voiceovers, adding extra romance and dopey authorial intrusions along the way all the while keeping the boat free of anything that might knock the film out of PG territory.