Alan Parker will direct and write "
Coram Boy," the feature version of Jamila Gavin's novel with Scott Rudin and Allison Owen producing.
Novel, winner of the Whitbread Children's Book Award, is an epic adventure about two orphans -- one rescued from an African slave ship, the other the abandoned son of the heir to a great estate. The duo are raised in Britain's Coram hospice in 1741.