![]() ![]() ![]() Disney's first version in the eighties came to nothing, as did Paramount's version in 2002-2006 under Robert Rodriguez, Kerry Conran (see Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow) and ultimately Jon Favreau, whose team would instead move on to make Iron Man after continuing indecision at Paramount allowed the option to lapse and the rights to be picked up again by Disney, now hoping to spin the series into a major franchise. Nevertheless, its arrival broke a jinx reaching back to 1931, when Bob Clampett tried to make the novel into what would have been the first animated feature, only for MGM to get cold feet after some tantalizing test footage which anticipates Flash Gordon. ![]() Colour, 3D (converted).Ĭivil War veteran Carter (Kitsch) bequeaths Edgar Rice Burroughs (Sabara) the story of his Teleportation to Barsoom ( Mars) and his adventures there with Tars Tarkas (Dafoe) and the warrior princess Dejah Thoris (Collins) against her rival suitor the nefarious warlord Sab Than (West), who is aided by the star-roaming predatory Thents the manuscript, and Carter's faked death, turn out to be a ruse to lure Martian agents to Earth where he can steal their means of return, and Carter beams back to Barsoom to rejoin his bride.Īppearing in the series' centenary year, this was not quite the first feature version of Burroughs' novel, having been beaten by spoiler factory The Asylum with their low-budget, present-set DVD version Princess of Mars ( 2009 vt John Carter of Mars 2012). Cast includes Lynn Collins, Willem Dafoe, Taylor Kitsch, Samantha Morton, Daryl Sabara, Mark Strong and Dominic West. Written by Stanton & Mark Andrews and Michael Chabon, based on A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (February-July 1912 All-Story as "Under the Moons of Mars" as by Norman Bean 1917). Walt Disney Pictures (see The Walt Disney Company). ![]()
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