Walt Disney Pictures, Robert Zemeckis’ ImageMovers and the Gotham Group are teaming up to adapt DARK LIFE, Kat Falls’ YA book that comes out this fall, reports VARIETY [1]. Zemeckis will direct.
The near-future story finds humans going to the ocean floor to escape environmental disasters on the surface. An underwater boy with special powers partners with a surface girl to blow the lid off a government conspiracy.
Zemeckis will produce with Jack Rapke and Steve Starkey. Jackie Levine will oversee for ImageMovers. Gotham’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Lee Stollman are also producers.
It is not yet known whether the film will be performance capture or not.
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[1] http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118017256.html?categoryid=13&cs=1&nid=2562