According to Yahoo! Finance, Dick Cook, chairman of The Walt Disney Studios, and David Stainton, president of Walt Disney Feature Animation, revealed today that an animated film based on William Joyce’s bestselling book A Day with Wilbur Robinson will be produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation. Executive produced by Clark Spencer (Lilo & Stitch) and produced by Disney animation veteran Dorothy McKim, A Day with Wilbur Robinson is set to be directed by Steve Anderson (head of story on The Emperor’s New Groove and Brother Bear). Disney’s Burbank-based animation studio will produce the computer-animated film, which is scheduled to be released in 2006, with animation beginning in June 2004.

“William Joyce’s charming and funny book has everything you could possibly want in an animated film and offers our animation team a rich world of possibilities. Steve Anderson has proven himself to be a great storyteller and will make a great director on this project, given his instincts and passion for the material. Clark Spencer did an amazing job producing Lilo & Stitch and we are thrilled to have him and Dorothy Mc Kim lending their expertise to this project. Our goal at Disney is to tell great stories and to take full advantage of the medium, and A Day with Wilbur Robinson gives us a chance to do both,” said Stainton, in redards to the announcement.