Michael Caine is set to star with Danny DeVito and Kristin Scott Thomas in The Nature of Enchantment, a fantasy-tinged drama for producer Penny Marshall and Mike Newell's 50 Cannons production company, Variety reported. The $18.5 million film will shoot in September in Montreal and will be the feature debut of music-video director Nick Brandt, from an original script by Stephen Volk, the trade paper reported.

Enchantment is the story of a feral child found abandoned in New York. Caine plays Dr. Easterman, the aging psychiatrist who discovers that the boy sees the city as a fairy-tale land: The skyscrapers are a forest; the commuters are gnomes, ogres and witches; and his doctor is a benign troll, the trade paper reported. As Easterman's daughter (Scott Thomas) and colleagues start to fear for his health and sanity, the doctor gets drawn into the boy's fantasy world, and they embark together on an odyssey through the streets of New York to find the source of the child's trauma, the ogre's castle, the trade paper reported.