John Carter : A Princess of Mars

[terry78]

If I thought he could pull off the southern accent and mannerisms, I'd let Goran Visinjic take a crack at it.

 

[Octoberist]

I hope that the mainstream audience will "Get" this movie. I do.

I admire the pulp vibe that it has, with it's 'Fantasy' version of Mars. But you're going to get those ignorant fools citing that "Mars doesn't have jungles". Well, thank you genius.

I do think that the big selling point of this movie is the half naked people running around casually. I've never read any of the novels, but I've seen those paintings. Kinky stuff!

 

[BT18]

If I thought he could pull off the southern accent and mannerisms, I'd let Goran Visinjic take a crack at it.

http://www.krstarica.com/slike/magazin/film_muzika/goran visnjic.jpg

I think chances are pretty small for him doing that. Maybe if I saw him do one role where he just spoke a line in somewhat passable American English in any other form of media. But I haven't.

 

[Ratcrawler]

Kieth David for Tars Tarkas... Ya know, I've always imagined his voice when reading Tarzan but never with Tars. Tars Tarkas I always imagined sounding like...Zorak or somebody. I hope Dejah and the red people will have some actual reddish/copper skin tones, though. My favorite artist from the Mars series is Joe Jusko.

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

http://download.pixologic.com/movies/zack-petroc-aia-2006.mov

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

big-muscled men, four armed green monsters, scantily clad, red-skinned women

do it or ****.

 

[Lighthouse]

Maybe someone can help me with this. When I was reading about the Halo movie getting dumped on IESB, there was this little quote against AICN.

http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_d4j_ezine&task=read&page=1&category=2&article=601&Itemid=29

"I really get a kick from this, especially the reaction of some online sites that believe that the studios are ****ing this up by not funding this movie. To paraphrase, AICN would prefer to see this movie die now than become a pile of **** after too much compromise. Then they go and say that Paramount/Dreamworks should move forward and pick up their next franchise. Didn’t Peter have complete control of King Kong and it still turned out ****ty?

The reason I get a kick from this is because AICN recently called us “Professional Studio Flunkies” but yet they are the ones who have the reputation of being complete sell outs and most studios and other movie sites agree that they have no real credibility.

From Earl Dittman like movie quotes, to the owner of site stabbing filmmakers in the back, which was the case early on with Princess of Mars/John Carter of Mars. I will not get into details but you can do some research and find out what really happened."


Does anyone know what he's talking about? I tried to look some stuff up but couldn't find anything.

 

[Killgore]

Is this movie even happening?

 

[green]

I doubt it.

http://www.johncartermovie.com/movienews.shtml

I dont think Paramount is going to renew their option, maybe if another studio picks it up.

 

[Dr. Fate]

Do you know what famous actor of the old school has the real name of John Carter?

 

[Substance D]

it needs to be someone exotic. johansson looks like a valley girl. get someone along the lines of jolie.

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

Do you know what famous actor of the old school has the real name of John Carter?

Charlton Heston.

 

[Dr. Fate]

Charlton Heston.

You are correct GDB sir.

 

[Max J Power]

Wasn't Jon Favreau going to direct this at some point?

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

Yes.

 

[Dr. Fate]

Seems like just about everyone was at one point slated to do John Carter: A Princess of Mars.

 

[Max J Power]

Seems like just about everyone was at one point slated to do John Carter: A Princess of Mars.

It was going to be Robert Rodriguez until he left the director's guild.

 

[green]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=18452
Disney to Take on John Carter of Mars?
Source: TMZ.com
January 16, 2007


TMZ.com reports that Walt Disney Pictures is in talks with the estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs to buy the film rights for the 11 volume "John Carter of Mars" series of books.

Two years ago, Paramount Pictures hired Jon Favreau to direct an adaptation. After that, the estate briefly negotiated with Fox and Walden Media to make the movie there, but that deal fell through as well, adds the site.

All of the previous crew members, including Favreau, are no longer on board.

 

[terry78]

^Hmmm, I sense a POTC vibe coming from this one. Though any chances of extreme scantily clad females will be close to none if it is under the Disney label.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Yes. They'd prefer breastless women dressed as men through half of it.

 

[tecnowraith]

Well guys and gals, it looks like it will be Pixar that will be doing the buying and it become animated instead. Source: http://www.mania.com/53345.html

Disney and Pixar are in final negotiations to acquire the film rights to the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel series John Carter of Mars.

The series tells of a Civil War officer named John Carter who is transported to Mars and finds himself a captive of the savage green men from Thark. Carter eventually rises to become a great warrior, marries a princess, raises a family and embarks on numerous adventures.

The series is the epitome of Development Hell, having been at Disney in development for most of the 1990's before heading to Paramount Pictures in 2002. Multiple directors have been attached to either an animated or live action version of the series, including: Robert Rodriguez, Kerry Conrad, Jon Favreau, Jeffrey Katzenberg and John McTiernan.

Paramount relinquished the rights about a year ago, and the series had been untouched until a month ago, when Pixar came calling.

A representative of the Burroughs estate said the studio was acquiring the live-action rights for a possible tent pole franchise. However, sources at Disney believed Mars to be headed for animated adaptation.

 

[Apocalypso]

Well guys and gals, it looks like it will be Pixar that will be doing the buying and it become animated instead. Source: http://www.mania.com/53345.html

Not surprising...a live-action movie that's not a remake of a '70s TV show or an '80s genre film? Won't happen in Hollywood these days.

 

[green]

Animated?
Hmmm dont know how I feel about that. On the one hand I've been waiting twenty years for a live action film and with the technology today this movie could be amazing. On the other an animated Pixar film could be just as great.
Ugggh, here comes the Tar Tarkas plushy.

 

[Cinemaman]

I have bad feeling

 

[green]

A little more...

http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=news&id=8539

JOHN CARTER OF... DISNEY?
01.16.07
By Devin Faraci
Contributing sources: TMZ, Don Murphy
UPDATE! Did the Burroughs estate decide? Variety just ran a story saying Disney is optioning the John Carter books... but they add no new information beyond what TMZ reported last week. It's odd to see no quotes from anyone. Could the trade be stealing stories from the web again?

Some projects never go away. For a while John Carter of Mars, the other famous series of books from Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs, was in development with Jon Favreau as the director and Aint It Cool News’ Harry Knowles as one of the producers. That fell apart, though, and Favreau moved on to Iron Man.

Now gossip site TMZ is reporting that the Burroughs estate is about to sell the film rights to the 11-volume series, beginning with A Princess of Mars, to Disney. But is that really the case? Knowing that legendary producer Don Murphy has been involved in the efforts to get this movie to the screen over the last few years, I gave him a call to see what’s what.

I caught Don on location in Vancouver, where he’s on the set of While She Was Out, a Kim Basinger-starring indie thriller he described as “hardcore.” Don happily gave me the inside poop on just where a potential A Princess of Mars movie is at the moment.

The Burroughs estate hasn’t finalized a Disney deal, Murphy says, and he doesn’t see why they necessarily would. Don’s working with Walden Media, the folks behind The Chronicles of Narnia movies, and he says that part of their offer is a guarantee to have a film in production in 18 months. Disney, meanwhile, is making no such offer, and is in fact interested in sitting on the film for Andrew Stanton, the director of Finding Nemo. Apparently Stanton wants to do a live action movie, and John Carter is what he fancies… but he’s lined up to do Pixar’s post-post-Ratatouille film, meaning he wouldn’t get started on John Carter, at the earliest, until next decade.

Whoever ends up with John Carter’s rights, we’re going to see a PG/PG-13 version. Don told me that when Fox was interested, they wanted to do a Conan the Barbarian-style R-rated movie, but Walden’s whole mission is about family-friendly fare. Disney, meanwhile, is refocusing on only making blockbusters, and you have a better chance of making John Carter of Mars a blockbuster if you keep it PG or PG-13.

Will we ever see A Princess of Mars on the big screen? My gut tells me that if Disney gets it, and holds it for Stanton, we might not. Who knows whether Stanton will still be interested three or more years from now? This film has languished in development hell for years, and may yet linger there longer.