According to The Hollywood Reporter Brendan Fraser has signed on to star in Inkheart for New Line Cinema and director Iain Softley who last directed The Skeleton Key for Universal.
The film is an adaptation of Cornelia Funke’s best-selling children’s novel in which a girl whose father, a bookbinder, has the power to bring characters from books to life by reading aloud. When a villainous ruler and his band of rogues from a children’s fable kidnap the man, his daughter and her friends — both real and imaginary — must set things right. Fraser will play the father, Mortimer “Mo” Folchart, who also is known as Silvertongue.
