Variety is reporting that Ice Age director Chris Wedge will helm a live action adaptation of Brian Selznick’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret for Johnny Depp’s Infinitum Nihil and Warner Bros.  Though it is not graphic novel, the 544-page The Invention of Hugo Cabret combines prose and illustrations in an extremely inventive way to tell the story of an orphan who lives in the walls of a Paris train station.  It won both the prestigious Caldecott Award (for the best picture book) and a Quill Award.  Warner Bros. acquired the rights to Hugo Cabret, which was a New York Times bestseller, in 2007.

Top drawer scribe Jake Logan, who penned the scripts for Gladiator, Sweeney Todd and The Aviator, is writing the screenplay for the adaptation of Hugo Cabret.  According to Variety Warners is hoping to get production underway by this fall.