On Thursday, American able channel FX declared that the Taiwanese filmmaker will direct the pilot episode of its drama Tyrant, about an unassuming American family drawn into the affairs of a turbulent Middle Eastern nation.

In fact, it is Lee's first venture into directing for television and his first project since 2012's Life of Pi, the tale of a young Indian boy shipwrecked with a tiger that won four Oscars in February.

Moreover, Production is due to start in the summer but no broadcast date or casting has been announced and that Howard Gordon and Gideon Raff the team behind Emmy-winning psychological thriller Homeland are the executive producers.

According to FX President John Landgraf, Ang Lee has demonstrated time and again an ability to present characters with such depth and specificity that they reveal the universal human condition.

Lee, 58, is one of the more versatile directors in the industry whose work has it's range from martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to British literary classic Sense and Sensibility and sci-fi action movie "Hulk."

What more a man need to justify his intellectual capability.

Good-luck Mr. Lee!

(AW:Samrat Biswas)