Michael Chabon made pretty much as great a contribution to pop culture as a human being could hope for when he wrote The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, a book that lionized comic books, examined the complicated experience of American Jews during World War II, and, hey, won the Pulitzer Prize. (It is also my favorite of all time, in case you're looking for a signed first-edition of something to give me for my birthday)

But Chabon wasn't stopping with literature; he also contributed script revisions to Spider-Man 2 (and we all know how well that turned out), and now he even has the temerity to lend some script advice to a bona fide Pixar genius. The Chabon fansite The Amazing Website of Kavalier and Clay confirmed with Chabon that he's offering rewrites on John Carter of Mars, Andrew Stanton's planned adaptation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs series.

"“I’ve been hired to do some revisions to an already strong script by Andrew Stanton and Mark Andrews,” Chabon confirmed. “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.”

If we lived in a perfect world, Chabon would give his input on virtually every comic book or genre movie (and his own novels, like Mysteries of Pittsburgh, wouldn't be bastardized in their movie versions). Also the pairing of Chabon and Stanton, who has blessed the world with Wall-E and Finding Nemo, is just about too good to believe.

For those of you worried that an Andrew Stanton script would need revisions, just remember that all Pixar movies go through years and years of story development before they become movies. Pete Docter himself has said that all Pixar movies start off terrible, but then they just work on them until they're good. Bringing in someone as talented as Chabon to join the team is nothing but a good sign about the future of John Carter of Mars.