Last week, Shekhar Kapur took over the place left by the late Anthony Minghella for his segment of the shorts ensemble New York, I Love
You and this week he will be in over his head with Warner Bros.’ period fantasy based on the recent Philip Reeve’s novel.
THR reports that Kapur will develop and direct Larklight while Steven Knight will adapt the tale that is set in a Victorian-era alternate universe in which mankind has been
exploring the solar system since the time of Isaac Newton, revolves
around a brother and sister who team with a band of renegade space
pirates to save the world from destruction at the hands of a madman.
Kapur has over the years been attached to several projects, but nothing close to the magnitude of this 200 million dollar project. In making their decision, Warner isn’t looking at the box office receipts for Elizabeth: The Golden
Age nor 02’s The Four Feathers.
Denise Di Novi is producing while Alison Greenspan is exec producing.
