Warner Bros. and Graham King's Initial Entertainment Group have acquired screen rights to bestselling Brian Selznick children's novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
Variety reports that the deal is a potential directing vehicle for Martin Scorsese.
Published last month by Scholastic, The Invention of Hugo Cabret concerns a 12-year-old orphan who lives in the walls of a Paris train station in 1930 and a mystery involving the boy, his late father and a robot.
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Warner Bros. and Graham King's Initial Entertainment Group have acquired screen rights to bestselling Brian Selznick children's novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret.
