Andrew Stanton is in talks to direct Chairman Spaceman for Searchlight Pictures and Genre Films, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Stanton will board the movie based on a 2017 New Yorker fiction story by Thomas Pierce about an infamous corporate raider who renounces his worldly wealth to become an interplanetary missionary.
Stanton helmed 2008's WALL-E, his Oscar-winning follow-up to 2003's Finding Nemo, which also took home the Oscar for best animated feature.
He also was a writer on each of Pixar’s Toy Story films in the blockbuster animated series. Pierce is adapting his own short story for the movie treatment.
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