Gay Aviator Writer Re-Teams with Scorsese

When gay screenwriter John Logan and legendary director Martin Scorsese teamed up to make The Aviator, they both snagged Oscar nominations.

So it's perhaps no surprise that, hot on the heels of Scorsese's Academy victory, the two are reuniting, this time for an adaptation of a children's book.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret tells the story of a 12-year-old orphan who secretly lives inside the walls of a Paris train station in 1930 and sets out to solve a mystery that involves his father and a robot.

No shooting date has yet been announced for the film, but Logan is staying busy in the meantime as the writer for Tim Burton's screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's bloody and brilliant musical Sweeney Todd, expected to be in theaters this Christmas.