Miller wrote the script and will direct the feature project, which involves a genie. FilmNation is handling international sales, while CAA is handling North America.

Miller is the Australian writer-director behind the Mad Max action movies that helped launch Mel Gibson into stardom. He also penned the screenplay for Babe and wrote and directed Babe: Pig in the City, in addition to helming the Happy Feet pics.

The 73-year-old filmmaker hit a career high with 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road, which won six Academy Awards and four BAFTA Awards and earned a Golden Globe best director nomination.

Sources say that while his new story is epic in feel, the project is light-years in the opposite direction from the tone of Fury Road.