John Carter of Mars

[Tawodi Osdi]

I've been reading the books lately and have come to like the world and its characters.  Now, I hear there will be a John Carter movie.  I know we have some really movie savvy guys here.  What's the prognosis?  Will the movie makers make a movie worth watching, or will they ruin it?

[Randomdays]

I don't know. I just watched the trailer here;

http://disney.go.com/johncarter/

As with a lot of things, theres parts I liked and didn't like. I've read the books more than one time, starting back in the 70's, and have been looking forward to this since I first heard about it. 1st impression is that the actor doesn't match my personal image of John Carter. I always pictured someone more like Clooney, Jackman or Mel Gibson back in his Road Warrior days. I lked the way Marvel drew him back in the 70's

There's already a B movie out where they updated him to a US soldier in the middle east - no immortal southern gentleman. I notice in the trailer there's no mention of the wild west background.

I hope they follow the original background and don't ruin it with an "update"

Edit   - justread some more on the site and they do mention  the civil war background. They also mention the Marvel comics series out now. I read the 1st issue and it wasn't bad.

[Mr. Hamrick]

Tawodi Osdi,
Considering how long the film as been in and out of the pipeline...
not including the attempts at an animated version...

I don't really have all that high hopes for it.  Then again, it IS Pixar so who knows.

[clownprince]

Read all the mars books and comics since the 80s. Will I go see it yes. But like any movie based on a book or comic I will judge it on it's own. Cant wait to see it . 

[Xenolith]

I think it looks pretty cool.  I'm not one that thinks movies must replicate the books, but I don't like them to deviate too far.  I'm excited to see it.

[BlueBard]

I'm willing to give it a chance... but I do wish the "red men" were really red and not just red tats.  How hard would it be to just redden their skin a little?

[Previsionary]

bump:

Disney will be releasing a ten minute clip of this tomorrow on youtube. [Source]

[BentonGrey]

I've been wanting this to become a movie forever....they had better not screw it up.  The movie LOOKS good, but from what I can tell, it is only tangentially related to the book.

[Previsionary]

here you go, kids: http://youtu.be/4HaE5Zs8dAY

[steamteck]

As an old school Burroughs fan from childhood, I really enjoyed it and found it closer to Burroughs actual work than almost any movie ever done about his stuff. There were a few modinizations and liberties taken but nothing I fould detracting or offensive to the original stories.

[steamteck]

Unfortunately it ssems that its losing money  big time so I guess no sequel.


Apparently many of the great unwashed out there think it is a rip off Star Wars etc rather than realizing  the original books as inspiration for the more recent stuff.