Eoin Colfer's Artemis Fowl will be getting the big screen treatment from Disney.

Combining the first and second books from the Irish author, the film will be produced by both Walt Disney Studios and the Weinstein Company. With a script penned by Michael Goldenberg (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix) the new movie also brings on executive producers Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal, according to Entertainment Weekly. 

The young adult sci-fi/fantasy series chronicles its eponymous character's search for, and interaction with, the world of fairies. Not your average 12-year-old, the young criminal mastermind comes from a rich family that has been torn apart. In a misguided and slightly malicious effort to find his father, save his mother, and keep the families fortune intact, Artemis concocts a plan to kidnap a fairy.

Unfortunately for Artemis, the member of the fairy world he ends up taking happens to be the elf Holly Short. A Captain for the Lower Elements Police Reconnaissance division (LEPRecon), Short and the LEP are a considerable force to contend with and Artemis' alternating contentious and friendly relations with the group leads to substantial character change for the anti-hero during the course of the series.

Cooperation between the Weinstein's and Disney helps to ehal over the scars created by the Weinstein's 2005 split from the studio after not being allowed to buy back their Disney-owned company, according to the Daily Mail.

"This is a special project for me because my children absolutely love this book," Harvey Weinstein said, according to the Daily Mail. "This story is for everyone and there is no one better than Disney to make a film that will excite people young and old."

Artemis Fowl entered the film world in 2001 but is only now seeing any real development.

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