Shekhar Kapur has signed on to develop and direct "
Larklight," a period fantasy Di Novi Pictures is producing for Warner Bros.
The 2006 book, set in aVictorian-era alternate universe in which mankind has been exploring the solar system since the time of Isaac Newton, revolves around a brother and sister who team with a band of renegade space pirates to save the world from destruction at the hands of a madman.