Eagle Eye screenwriter Travis Adam Wright has been hired to adapt Here, There Be Dragons and The Search for the Red Dragon, the first books in James A. Owen's popular young-adult fantasy series The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica.

The Gotham Group (The Spiderwick Chronicles) is producing the films, with The Lord of the Rings trilogy co-producer Rick Porras set to produce, Heat Vision reports.

Published in September 2006, Here, There Be Dragons centers on three young Oxford scholars -- future giants of fantasy literature John (J.R.R. Tolkien), Jack (C.S. Lewis) and Charles (Charles Williams) -- brought together by a murder and entrusted with an atlas detailing the locations of all of the lands from myth and legend. With the help of the eccentric Bert (H.G. Wells), the young men escape the minions of Mordred by fleeing aboard Bert's ship the Indigo Dragon, one of only seven vessels that can cross the Frontier between worlds into the Archipelago of Dreams.

Simon & Schuster has published four novels in the planned seven-book Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica; the fifth, The Dragon's Apprentice, will be released in October.

Prior to Here, There Be Dragons, Owen was probably best known for his self-published 1990s comic series Starchild. The author also illustrates the Geographica novels.