John Carter : A Princess of Mars

[dark_b]

$200M budget for a movie not released in the summer or the November/December holiday periods?

if it bombs it bombs.t: i dont care about sequels. i want this movie to be the best it can be.

 

[chelo248]

I’ve Seen The First John Carter Trailer And I’m Amazed Nobody’s Done A Description Online Yet

Before a screening of Fright Night 3D, which is being distributed by Disney in the UK, we were treated to the 3D trailer for M. Mouse and A. Stanton’s John Carter. Now, I clicked as to what I was watching within just a couple of seconds, but I sure as heck didn’t manage to remember all of the details. Too excited, probably.
So, to refresh myself, I looked online for the inevitable trailer description. Somebody was bound to have posted one, right?
Well, apparently not.
And, as they say, nature abhors a vacuum, so…
The trailer begins with shots on Earth, the young Edgar Rice Burroughs being met in the street and addressed. It was the name “Burroughs” and the face of Daryl Sabara that tipped me off to what this trailer was.
If these Earth shots weren’t filmed on an expansive, real soundstage but created digitally, it’s top-tier stuff. It was a living, breathing street, very busy and cluttered with life. No matter how they were created, they were very pleasing.
And I’ll be damned if I can’t remember how the transition to Mars, or perhaps more properly Barsoom, comes, but it must have been more or less a straight cut – a quick fade to black and back again at most. We were there before we knew it.
Everything had a very, very natural look to it, and my preconceptions that the film’s design would be stylised in an Avatar fashion were proven completely unfounded.
Only one shot seemed to feature one of the CG characters, and I can’t tell you which one, but he was male. The voice over appeared to be done by Willem Dafoe, presumably in the character of Tars Tarkas. This suggests it was this character I was looking at, though I’ve got my doubts. Is Tarkas not meant to be an incredible warrior? Not sure this gels with the character I saw.
Most of the shots of Barsoom showed very few signs of life. There was some kind of huge leap sequence in which Carter propelled himself from landmark to landmark – though, from the trailer presented, it wasn’t clear how he was doing so. Despite the physics of what he was doing being unnatural, at least by Earth standards, it all looked oddly realistic.
We got a good few shots of Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins, not much of anybody else, and Kitsch seemed to be decked out in warpaint, and was typically stripped to the waist.
Nothing gave away any indication of plot, and it all felt rather like pieces of a puzzle with no indication at all of how they were meant to fit together. Not my favourite kind of trailer, but obviously preferable to those which spoil sixty percent of a film’s major plot points.
Well, to a film buff audience at least – I’m not sure of the efficacy of enigma in marketing.
At the end of the trailer, a complex insignia unravelled to leave just the JCM glyph from the poster. That ‘M’ is now strictly irrelevant as a marketing symbol for the film, but the design is nice, so I can see why they wouldn’t want to toss it.
Or, as I said, this is how I remembered the trailer. If I hadn’t been so surprised, I’d have managed far better recall, I’m sure.
Now – I know a couple of hundred other folks were there in the same room with me. Can anybody fill in the blanks?
This trailer will go on wide release with the new Harry Potter film, I understand. And it’s also due online soon.
The film itself will be released next March. There’s a fresh Facebook widget that will help you count down the days – and, I wouldn’t be surprised, give the trailer its online premiere when the time comes.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/07...amazed-nobodys-done-a-description-online-yet/

 

[Octoberist]

so are they keeping 'Mars' in the title or not? because it sounds like they're bing wishy-washy about it.

 

[Rowsdower!]

Hey! The guy is only as good as the part you know. Accent could have been better but other than that he was fairly decent. Hope he shines in this. Saw that Bryan Cranston is in this as well. He's great in Breaking Bad.

Hey, I'll give the guy a shot. I hope he's good in this, because the rest of the cast is awesome and even though I've never read any of the John Carter stories, I know they're classics.

And yeah, Bryan Cranston is the man. I'll watch anything that he's in. He's the solitary reason I'm interested in that Total Recall remake.

 

[matrix_ghost]

$200M budget for a movie not released in the summer or the November/December holiday periods?

Intially slated for June 2012 but Disney moved it to March 2012.
Presumbly Disney is hoping that JC will have more breathing room in MArch.
Look at Alice in WOnderland. Released in MArch 2010 and it became a billion dollar grosser.

Of course many factors contributed to it but it grossed a billion WW.
Whereas Tron Legacy was being promoted as the next avatar and even had avatar's december release date and just fell short .

 

[Hunter Rider]

Intially slated for June 2012 but Disney moved it to March 2012.
Presumbly Disney is hoping that JC will have more breathing room in MArch.
Look at Alice in WOnderland. Released in MArch 2010 and it became a billion dollar grosser.

Of course many factors contributed to it but it grossed a billion WW.
Whereas Tron Legacy was being promoted as the next avatar and even had avatar's december release date and just fell short .

I had no idea Alice in Woderland had grossed a billion, how many films have done that now?

So I guess this release date makes more sense now, but the trailer report is odd, not talk of big money shots, is it not that type of movie?

 

[Crockett]

I had no idea Alice in Woderland had grossed a billion, how many films have done that now?

So I guess this release date makes more sense now, but the trailer report is odd, not talk of big money shots, is it not that type of movie?

If it's just the movies that grossed over $1 billion with On Stranger Tides having grossed past it now there are currently seven movies. Only one movie has grossed more in which everybody knows it's Avatar. It was lucky for Alice in Wonderland since it came out after the good reception of Avatar and of its 3D, and AIW also had 3D so they were lucky there, without it I doubt they would have grossed that much money in the box office.

The description of the trailer sounds alright, I'm hoping that they release it online.

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

I want need to see the trailer now.

 

[DarkKnight88]

If it's just the movies that grossed over $1 billion with On Stranger Tides having grossed past it now there are currently seven movies. Only one movie has grossed more in which everybody knows it's Avatar. It was lucky for Alice in Wonderland since it came out after the good reception of Avatar and of its 3D, and AIW also had 3D so they were lucky there, without it I doubt they would have grossed that much money in the box office.

It also doesn't hurt that Johnny Depp was the star. Three out of seven of the billion dollar movies are Johnny Depp movies.

 

[Crockett]

It also doesn't hurt that Johnny Depp was the star. Three out of seven of the billion dollar movies are Johnny Depp movies.

Yeah that right there is quite impressive for an actor who has star power, no doubt, and it's lucky for Disney also. I'd say the 3D helped quite a bit in Alice in Wonderland's case though. It'd make a lot without the 3D but past the billion mark? Not sure.

And I'd be content with one good look at the alien in the trailer, that's what I'm most excited to see.

 

[matrix_ghost]

The budget could roughly be around the 150-200 mark.

Regarding the 3D, last time I checked was that Disney was trying to convince Stanton to post-convert it to 3D since he was reluctant to do so; and we haven't heard anything about it since.

I for one, hope that they're aren't pushing forward with 3D for this as John Carter wasn't envisioned as a 3D movie from the beginning.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=79387

Stanton also confirmed that, while the film will be released in 3D, it will be done through a post-conversion process overseen by Bob Whitehill, Pixar's stereographer. While Stanton himself isn't particularly interested in a 3D version over the 2D, he does promise a quality conversion and, ultimately, more options for moviegoers.


Read more: A First Look at John Carter - ComingSoon.net http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=79387#ixzz1RoiAG8Zu

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

John Carter Press Extravaganza

Ain't It Cool

Collider

Comingsoon

Slashfilm

A Quick Run-down

-The film will most likely be PG-13.

-While Stanton isn't interested in a 3D version for John Carter, the film will be post-converted to 3D.

-Stanton said that with the shorten title, he's hoping that it will appeal to those who aren't into sci-fi so it was his idea to just call it John Carter, to focus on the character and sell the character, not the spectacle. "Believe me, Mars is going to come into this thing, title and everything, before this whole journey’s over. You’ve just got to be patient. There was a grand design to all this thing.”

-Academy Award nominated production designer Nathan Crowley (The Dark Knight & The Prestige) was hired because Stanton didn’t want a typical sci-fi designer. Crowley comes from a more architectural background and Stanton wanted someone who could come at it from that level.

-The first three John Carter books have been optioned (A Princess of Mars, The Gods of Mars and The Warlord of Mars) and are being developed as a trilogy by Disney. If the first does well, they’ll move on. Stanton wanted to ensure that the films would be interlinked, but still independent from one another.

-The trailer includes Peter Gabriel doing a cover of Arcade Fire's My Body is a Cage.

First Look at the Thark(s):

 

[dark_b]

this will sound like nitpick but i dont understand why the lower two arms need shoulders. first it doesnt have the right function since its not on top and second the shoulders look strange since the arms come out of the torso.

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=79387

Although I'm pissed that Disney moved forward with the 3D for this, I admit it wasn't surprising at all.

Anyway, I'm so pumped to see the trailer. t:

 

[Crockett]

Some very good and interesting information in the articles, and Arcade Fire ftw!

 

[Octoberist]

Stanton is legit

 

[dark_b]

he is a pixar artist. so he knows how to create art. but this is an expansive disney blockbuster and his first live action movie . he is doing what Disney tells him.

 

[Octoberist]

did you read any of the articles, dark b?

 

[dark_b]

why?

 

[Octoberist]

I have my doubts but stanton is not a stupid man. I assume you haven't read any the new interview yet?

 

[dark_b]

first live action movie and a huge blckbuster from Disney. its that simple IMO.

 

[Octoberist]

you haven't read the articles. pleaaze reed itt!

 

[Doctor Jones]

I trust Stanton to make a good film. He sounds like he knows what he's doing.

And using Arcade Fire is such a great idea. Can't go wrong.

 

[MARVEL ROCKS]

As much as I would like this movie to be good and do well, I don't think it will do all that well at boxoffice.

A lot of movies have taken stuff from Princess of Mars trilogy so this movie will feel like a rip off to the general audience that haven't heard of these books.

Let's face it, the only thing this movie has going for it is Andrew Stanton. They can spend a bucket loads on marketing this movie, but it could turn out to be another Tron Legacy the boxoffice.

Alice in Wonderland boxoffice is NOT happening.

 

[Sawyer]

Well, it looks like someone can tell the future!