John Carter of Mars

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IMDB lists this as in production, I for one am excited to see if they can't screw this up too bad. It would have to be an epic. I've read ERB's original novel, John Carter of Mars. I thought it was pretty good. The cast looks like a little bit of a Marvel superheroes reunion, but I'm still optimistic. I just saw that Disney is releasing it. Ah, well, Pirates of the Caribbean was action packed. Not sure if it will be just heavily laden with CGI, or if it will be animated. As long as it isn't like their version of Tarzan :rolleyes:.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401729/
 
Fingers crossed for sure.
The original cover illustrations looked like "Marvel Superheros", so that is not a bad thing.
 
With Andrew Stanton as director, I am not holding my breathe....Wall-E was his only movie I remotely liked in a subversive kind of way. Who is playing John Carter?

Wait a second just saw Willem Dafoe listed, this might not be bad.
 
Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote most of his novels for the old pulp fiction weeklies. Every chapter would end with a cliff hanger so readers would be sure to buy the next weeks issue. In the early 60's Ace and Bantam paperback books reprinted all his stories. As a junior high kid I could not get enough of them. Read'um all. The were impossible to put down once you started reading. Doggone Edgar and his cliff hanging chapters. :D
 
Hope it is better than the Traci Lords Princess of Mars offering.
 
Danbo said:
Oh, I have two copies. A smart comic book collector ALWAYS buys two copies; one to read and one to keep mint for collector's value. ;)
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The only comics I get these days are the Hellboy family of comics. I spend on average about three bucks for these books, and when I'm done with them, leave them all over the place. If only for the cover price I pay every couple months, I should be bagging and boarding them.
 
I've got ERB's complete works on one Kindle file.
Technology like this is so appropriate for SF. :)
 
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