I'm not entirely sure what happened in his career, whether he was looking for a new type of film making or he just fell in love with the technology, but Robert Zemeckis quickly transformed from the director of Back to the Future to the guy who likes to play chicken with the uncanny valley. Though he won't be directing, Zemeckis has signed on to produce Airman through Disney and ImageMovers, and, as you probably guessed, the film will be entirely motion capture.

Based on the book by Eoin Colfer, being adapted by Nights in Rodanthe writer Ann Peacock, Airman is a fantasy story that centers on a boy in the Saltee Islands who is thrown in prison after he is suspected of killing the king, for whom his father is a bodyguard. Locked away, he begins to design a flying machine that can be used to save him and his family after he discovers that they are in danger.

According to Variety, Gil Kennan, who previously worked with Zemeckis on Monster House will be directing and hopefully not making audiences feel uncomfortable and weird for straight two hours.