In what's surely a sign the 3-D craze isn't going away anytime soon, Martin Scorsese will enter the third dimension with The Invention of Hugo Cabret, based on the award-winning children's book by Brian Selznick.

The adaptation, written by John Logan (The Aviator, Sweeney Todd), also will mark the director's first foray into children's literature.

Released in 2007, Selznick's The Invention of Hugo Cabret blends comics and prose to tell the story of Hugo, a 12-year-old orphan, clock keeper and thief who lives in the walls of a busy train station in 1930s Paris. When he crosses paths with an eccentric girl and a bitter old man who runs a toy booth in the station, Hugo's undercover life, and his most precious secret, are placed in jeopardy. The 544-page novel won the Caldecott Medal for distinguished picture book in 2008.

The movie, financed by GK Films and distributed by Sony, stars Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Chloe Moretz and Asa Butterfield. It's set for a December 2011 release.