ImageMovers, Disney Capturing Stoneheart

Robert Zemeckis’ Imagemovers and Disney are in talks for the rights to make a movie based on Charlie Fletcher’s popular fantasy novel series, The Stoneheart Trilogy.

The film would, like all of Imagemovers’ projects to date, be made using motion capture technology, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Story follows a London boy who enters a world where statues come to life using the souls of their sculptors and gets caught in the midst of a struggle between good and evil.

The film would join an Imagemovers slate that includes Mars Needs Moms, directed by Simon Well and based on the Berkeley Breathed book, and Airman, adapted from the adventure book by Eoin Colfer and directed by Gil Kenan.