Director Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In) has reportedly signed on with Warner Bros. Pictures to direct the big-screen adaptation of Philip Reeve‘s 2006 novel set in Victorian-era alternate universe entitled, Larklight.

THR reports that Denise Di Novi is producing for Di Novi Pictures’, Alison Greenspan is executive producing and Steven Knight (Eastern Promises) is working on the the script for the project.

Story synopsis via Larklight.com

Art Mumby and his rather irritating sister, Myrtle, live with their father in a huge and rambling house called Larklight, travelling through the aether on a remote orbit far beyond the Moon. One ordinary sort of morning they receive a letter announcing that a Mr Webster wishes to call upon them. Visitors to Larklight are rare, if not unique, and a frenzy of preparation ensues. But it is entirely the wrong sort of preparation, as the Mumbys discover when their guest arrives, and a Dreadful and Terrifying adventure begins. It takes them to the farthest reaches of space, where they must battle the evil First Ones in a desperate bid to save each other – and the known Universe.

Larklight is slated to hit theaters in 2013.