Robert Zemeckis to make 'Dark Life'

Robert Zemeckis and Disney have teamed up for an adaptation of Kat Falls's upcoming novel Dark Life, reports Variety.

Fall's story takes place in the near future when natural disasters and rising sea levels have forced people to live on the ocean floor. The protagonists - an underwater teen boy and a surface girl - join forces to uncover a government conspiracy.

Dark Life will be published in May through Scholastic, and is expected to be the first book in a series.

Zemeckis is attached to produce (and potentially direct) the movie alongside Jack Rapke, Steve Starkey, Jackie Levine, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Lee Stollman.

His ImageMovers company is also working on a remake of Beatles movie The Yellow Submarine with Peter Serafinowicz and Dean Lennox Kelly in the lead roles.