Michael Chabon has confirmed that he will be working on Pixar’s “John Carter of Mars” script.

Via The Amazing Website of Kavalier & Clay:

“I’ve been hired to do some revisions to an already strong script by Andrew Stanton and Mark Andrews,” Chabon said. “I wrote my original screenplay The Martian Agent back in 1995 because I wished I could do [Edgar Rice] Burroughs’s Barsoom. So this is pretty much a dream come true for me.”

Andrew Stanton, if you’ll remember, directed Wall-E and A Bug’s Life, two excellent films and both close to my heart. And this film, “John Carter of Mars” is his follow-up to Wall-E. Based on the Edgar Rice Burrough’s series, this could be an excellent way to follow up what a lot of people, myself included, called the best film of 2008.

I’ve heard rumblings from some (particularly Drew McWeeny at HitFlix) about Chabon’s abilities as a screenwriter, and as someone who’s read Chabon’s draft of Spider-Man 2 and his eighth draft of the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay in screenplay format, I can only say that I think McWeeny is way off the mark.

If you’d like to, go back and read my review of the Kavalier and Clay script here.

And I’d like to point out that I thought what Chabon did in his draft of Spider-Man 2 turned out to be some of the best material in the movie. Yeah things changed and got better, that’s always the goal when writers collaborate, but to say that it just laid there is a gross mis-statement.