Marley & Me‘s David Frankel is set to direct the animated fantasy feature Septimus Heap: Magyk for Warner Bros.
Rob Lieber has the job of writing a screenplay that adapts the seven-book series by Angie Sage about a boy and a princess who are switched at birth. The fifth installment in the series, Syren, is due out from HarperCollins this fall.
Karen Rosenfelt is producing through Sunswept Entertainment, with Sage signed on as an executive producer.
