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.