Chairman Spaceman | Andrew Stanton

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Two-time Oscar winner Andrew Stanton is in early talks we hear to direct Chairman Spaceman for Searchlight Pictures and Simon Kinberg’s Genre Films.

Chairman Spaceman is based on Thomas Pierce’s New Yorker short story of the same name, and it’s the second piece from the magazine that the writer is adapting with Genre for a big screen take. Back in August, Deadline broke that Netflix won Pierce’s New Yorker short story Tardy Man package, Pyros, which has Reese Witherspoon attached to star and Kinberg’s Genre Films producing.


Pierce’s Chairman Spaceman is set in the near future, and follows a notorious corporate raider who 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. Pierce is adapting his own short story for the big screen. Kinberg is producing alongside Genre Films’ Audrey Chon. SOURCE