According to Deadline, Disney+ has acquired the rights to Neal Shusterman’s novel Challenger Deep and has tapped Toy Story 4 writer Will McCormack to pen the screenplay.
In his other world, he is part of a pirate crew on a voyage to place known as the Challenger Deep, the ocean’s deepest trench.
Per the report, the author based the book on his own son’s schizoaffective disorder.
Along the way Caden endures a captain and his mutinous parrot, not to mention the mutterings of his fellow shipmates.