The Hollywood Reporter carries word that ImageMovers and Disney are in negotiations to pick up film rights to Charlie Fletcher’s young-adult fantasy novel The Stoneheart Trilogy.

The books follow a 12-year old British boy who enters a hidden alternate world where statues, imbued with the soul-like essence of their makers, come to life. His presence there upsets the balance between good and evil and he must team up with an orphan girl and the statue of a World War I gunner to set things right.

Robert Zemeckis, Jack Rapke and Steve Starkey are set to produce the film. It will make use of performance-capture technology.