Donald Petrie (
Miss Congeniality) has signed on to direct the ensemble romantic comedy
Chasing Dinner, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The story is set in a small town whose residents' lives are turned upside down when three pigs escape being butchered to become "hams on the lam," spurring a media circus during the holiday season.
"This is one of the most laugh-out-loud funny, heartwarming and completely unique scripts I have read in a long time," Petrie said.