Coram Boy Film - Unrelated to the Play - is in the Works

For audiences who missed the recent Broadway production of Coram Boy, a film adaptation of Jamila Gavin's epic young adult novel is on the way, according to Variety.

Directed by Alan Parker (The Life of David Gale, Angela's Ashes) and produced by Scott Rudin and Allison Owen, the film version of Coram Boy will be adapted from Gavin's novel by Parker and will be unrelated to the play, which played on Broadway in May of 2007 after a hit run at London's National Theatre.  Helen Edmundson penned the lavish stage version, which was directed and co-designed by Melly Still. 

The Coram Boy film will be a co-production of Scott Rudin Productions, Owen's Ruby Films and BBC Films, in partnership with Miramax and the U.K. Film Council.

The "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," as described in the article.

No casting has been announced.