Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future) and Walt Disney Pictures are set to partner with the Gotham Group to adapt a new adult novel from Kat Falls called Dark Life. Robert Zemeckis is attached to direct and Jack Rapke (Beowulf), Steve Starkey (The Polar Express) and Zemeckis will produce the film.

The novel will be published in May, and is set in a near-future world in which rising ocean levels and natural catastrophes have led some people to homestead on the ocean floor, and kids to develop supernatural powers. The story centers on an underwater teenage boy and a surface girl who join forces to uncover a government conspiracy.

[Source] Variety