Robert Zemeckis to Direct Film Adaptation of THE MIRACULOUS JOURNEY OF EDWARD TULANE

Robert Zemeckis is set to bring Kate DiCamillo's popular children's novel THE MIRACULOUS JOURNEY OF EDWARD TULANE to the big screen.

According to Variety, the Oscar-winning director has officially signed on to helm the adaptation, which has been in the works at New Line for the past seven years. Jeff Stockwell penned the screenplay.

THE MIRACULOUS JOURNEY OF EDWARD TULANE, originally published in 2006, is officially described as:

"Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was very pleased with himself, and for good reason: he was owned by a girl named Abilene, who adored him completely. And then, one day, he was lost... Kate DiCamillo takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the depths of the ocean to the net of a fisherman, from the bedside of an ailing child to the bustling streets of Memphis. Along the way, we are shown a miracle--that even a heart of the most breakable kind can learn to love, to lose, and to love again."

Zemeckis has been at the helm of some of the most inventive and critically acclaimed movies of the past three decades, including Romancing the Stone, the Back to the Futuretrilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Forrest Gump, and Cast Away. He most recently directed Paramount Pictures' Flight, starring Denzel Washington and John Goodman.