The work of cult author Philip K. Dick has seen mini-resurgence in Hollywood of late. The Adjustment Bureau (an adaptation of one of his short stories) was on the big screen a month or so back, and a remake of Total Recall (from another short, We Can Remember It for You Wholesale) is currently in production. Now word comes through from Variety of yet another story being primed for production with the unlikeliest of bedfellows.

According to the site, Disney has obtained the talents of scriptwriter Michael Markowitz (Horrible Bosses) to pen King of the Elves, with a potential release date at the end of 2013 ready being mapped out. First published in 1953, it tells the story of an old man who grudgingly agrees to help a group of elves to fight off a troll and by doing so is awarded the titular position.

Chris Williams (the co-director and writer of the 2009 Disney feature, Bolt) is managing the development of the film, which is unlikely to include the usual paranoid, mind-twisting, drug-allegorical landscape which is usually synonymous with the writers work.