Ang Lee To Tackle Football Project
Ang Lee never met a literary adaptation he couldn’t tackle, it seems. The multi-Oscar winner, who directed “Brokeback Mountain” and who’s been largely absent since winning Best Director for “Life of Pi,” has picked his next project: Ben Fountain’s celebrated 2012 novel “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,” about a group of Iraq war vets, including 19-year-old Billy Lynn, who must endure a Thanksgiving Day football game in Texas on their exhaustive “Victory Tour†before they return to the war. I wonder just how much Mr. Lee knows about football. No matter: he is just about the only big-name director who could make a successful film about just about anything. No typecasting him.
