The film is in the process of casting Eva Green in the female role and Disney is still in search of their male lead role, as their deal with Chris Pine to play the male lead has fallen through in recent days.

A Green-Burton reunion would make a lot of sense given the sizzling actress seems to be the director’s new muse, and Burton has a habit of working again and again with actors he likes. Green played the title character in Burton’s family fantasy Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children, based on the novel by Ransom Riggs.