After years as one of the guiding lights, Brain Trust members and senior directors at Pixar, Andrew Stanton gave live-action a shot with John Carter. That didn't work out as well as he might have hoped (though it's underrated and fun), and he went back to animation, with some TV directing work. Now, he's in early talks to make a film called Chairman Spaceman for Searchlight Pictures and Simon Kinberg's Genre Films.
The movie will see New Yorker contributor Thomas Pierce adapting his own short story. Chairman Spaceman chronicles what happens when a notorious corporate raider renounces his worldly wealth. To redeem himself, he signs up for an interplanetary mission to colonize the greater solar system. The story follows his final days on Earth and the fallout when the trip doesn’t go as planned.
It's the latest project for Kinberg as producer, with his company setting up various films it hopes to have ready for when productions can restart. Kinberg himself has Here Comes The Flood in the works at Netflix and David Ayer is developing a Dirty Dozen remake for Warner Bros.