Martin Scorsese may direct a big screen adaptation of Brian Selznick's bestselling children's novel "The Invention of Hugo Cabret."

Variety.com reports that Warner Bros. and Graham King's Initial Entertainment Group have secured the rights as a possible directing project for Scorsese.

Screenwriter John Logan ("The Aviator") is set to write the script.

Scorsese is a busy man at the moment, with the rumoured sequel to "The Departed," and film adaptations of the novels "Silence" and "Last Duel: A True Story of Crime," "Scandal" and "Trial by Combat in Medieval France."