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Disney Releases Official John Carter of Mars Synopsis on Facebook

Posted 02.03.10 by BrentJS

To coincide with the start of principal photography on John Carter of Mars, Disney has created an official Facebook page for the movie. Though the content is primarily limited to a cast list and links to a few articles at this point, the page does include the official synopsis for the movie:

From Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo, WALL-E), John Carter of Mars brings this captivating hero to the big screen in a stunning adventure epic set on the wounded planet of Mars, a world inhabited by warrior tribes and exotic desert beings. Based on the first of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ “Barsoom Series,” the film chronicles the journey of Civil-War veteran John Carter (Taylor Kitsch), who finds himself battling a new and mysterious war amidst a host of strange Martian inhabitants, including Tars Tarkas (Willem Dafoe) and Dejah Thoris (Lynn Collins).

John Carter of Mars also stars Mark Strong, Bryan Cranston, James Purefoy, Samantha Morton, and Thomas Haden Church.

Next Showing: John Carter of Mars is scheduled for a 2012 release

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JohnCarter
qdm99 | 08.08.11 04:10:40 PM
I agree with all that was written by drraven and I too have read all the books several times. I have just purchased a new ebook reader and the first books I added were the first 5 Barsoom books to read again.

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For The Future
Drraven | 08.04.10 11:58:22 PM
My wish is that these movies will spark a new interest in ERB's books and introduce his timeless adventures to new gnerations who I hope will grow up with many of the womderful, posative values deeply engrosed in the lead characters of his novels.
I hope to see many movies originating from the many series and several of the single books. The Venus series, Moon series, Pellucidar, The Rider, Beyond the Farthest Star, just to name a few. Of course TARZAN goes without mentioning. The last reasonably descent Tarzan movie was Greystoke and yet the most important part of the book, How Tarzan meets Jane and rescues her from Kerchak was sadly, completely reversed, inso that Tarzan goes to England and Meets Jane there. How great it would be to see a truly great, true to the book Tarzan movie made. Imagine how incredibly, wonderful it could be with todays magical technology.
Let us hope this is the beginning of something huge. Yes, I can see this becoming a SciFi trend to possibly parallel StarTrek.

Kaor fellow Barsoomians

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Trilogy
Drraven | 08.04.10 11:37:51 PM
Kaor my fellow Barsoomians.
From my understanding, Disney Pixar has purchased the Web address for these movies coinciding with the first three book which are a perfect trilogy. Books 4 to 11 are scatered adventures.
JohnCarterofmars, TheGodsofmars, TheWarlordofmars.
I vehemently agree with the above statement. If they stay true to the books and dont get crazy with the story line they will please millions of ERB fans. If they diverge too much and excersize too much of their artistic license they will seriously PISS OFF millions or dedicated ERB fans. The story as is, is pefect in its own right and needs no embellishment. I have already herd rumors of shape shifting Holy Therns which is not consistant with the books so lets hope it is only a BAD rumor.
John Carter was my Male Role model and I have read every book ERB has written; many several times over. I am proudly the Trekie version of ERB fans. Perhaps we would call ourselves Barsoomians or something similar.
Kaor.

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John Carter of Mars
arutha0823 | 05.21.10 09:43:20 PM
This has been almost 100 yrs in the making. If they keep it true to the books and dont try to cram 15 books into 3 movies, it should do well. With Pixar at the helm, they should use the best technology. Maybe not on the scale of Avitar, but the story line might be better than Lord of the Rings.

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