ImageMovers Lines Up Behind Airman

Gil Kenan, director of Monster House, is signed on to Airman, a $150 million motion-capture fantasy film from Robert Zemeckis’ ImageMovers banner.

The film is based on a book by Eoin Colfer about a boy whose father is the bodyguard to the king of Ireland, Variety reports. When the King is killed, the boy is falsely convicted and sent to prison, where he builds a flying machine with which to save his family.

Ann Peacock has been tapped to write the screenplay, while Zemeckis, Jack Rapke and Steve Starkey are producing the film, with Jackie Levine overseeing for ImageMovers.