Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. This isn't exactly new news, but it's just too cool to let pass without comment.

It's been rumored that author Michael Chabon is doing a pass on Andrew Stanton's adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' A PRINCESS OF MARS (film titled JOHN CARTER OF MARS to make it sound less girly, I guess) and Chabon has come out to comment on it via The Amazing Website of Kavalier & Clay. Here are his words below:

“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.”

Now, this is only good news in my book. Chabon is a strong writer, so is Stanton and if Chabon's statement isn't all politics then he's coming in to help with an already good script.

I talked with Stanton in Santa Barbara this January and he was excited about starting up John Carter, but nervous. The words he used were "... it scares the crap out of me. It's either going to make me or break me." I like that he's nervous, honestly. That means he desperately wants to get this movie right. This isn't a payday for him, this isn't an excuse for him, the next rung on the ladder that gets him out of animation. Stanton really cares about this story.

I'm really psyched to see what this looks like. Andrew Stanton doing a live action Barsoom film based on his script with a polish by Michael Forkin' Chabon? The last thing he had a hand in was SPIDER-MAN 2 which is my favorite of the three films. It's all exciting for me. I can't wait to hear who Stanton casts in the movie and each step afterwards all the way up to the release. What about you folks?