Writers Will Adapt "Lost Years Of Merlin" For Mouse House

 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider writers Patrick Massett and John Zinman, have been hired to pen the adapted script that will bring author T. A. Barron's young-adult novel series "The Lost Years of Merlin" to the big screen for Disney says Heat Vision.

 The stories follow a teen who will one day be the powerful being who sits at the right hand of King Arthur. But first he has many lessons to master, including how to temper his darker leanings and his pride.

Other characters include a spirit world warlord, a wannabe jester and a female companion with much of the action happening on the enchanted isle of Fincayra.

  Gil Netter (Life of Pi, The Blind Side) is producing the movie adaptation.

Various studios have attempted to adapt the property before with little success.