The star of cable TV’s Breaking Bad (one of those shows I look forward to visiting on DVD when it’s all over) Bryan Cranston is the latest face to get a role in Disney’s long-awaited John Carter of Mars. But Cranston won’t be on Barsoom (what Mars’ inhabitants call the planet in Edgar Rice Burrough’s novels), he’ll be a Civil War colonel. No idea which side he’s on; in the books John Carter was a Confederate, but since Cranston is going to be ‘in conflict’ with Carter, he could be on either side of the war.
The movie starts shooting next week. I’m really excited to see the first images of the Tharks, the giant four armed green warriors. Here’s hoping that director Andrew Stanton has truly nailed this one down and that the epic, swashbuckling and yes, pulpy, adventures of John Carter are finally translated to the big screen in a way that honors the feeling of those great books.
By the way, this is NOT a Pixar movie, which means it’s not Pixar’s first live action movie. Just so you know.
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Devin, you should do yourself a huge favor and watch Breaking Bad now. It's excellent.
Why wait to watch breaking bad? Great show
This sounds like Avatar 2. Why you are so excited by 4 armed green aliens, but not 2 armed blue aliens simply blows my mind….oh wait 4 arms is so original and "alien", in a Mortal Kombat kind of way.
It's because Mr. Faraci likes Andrew Stanton more than he likes James Cameron.
And I can't really disagree with him – although Avatar was a super fun movie experience – Finding Nemo is an incredible movie – I saw it at Purdue with about 250 college students in a small theater and you wouldn't believe how much a bunch of 20 somethings cared about those little fish.
It's original because it was written a hundred years ago, you dumbass. Plus, Cameron admitted that the John Carter series was a direct influence on Avatar.
devin's predisposed to like this movie more because avatar is a pretty shameless ripoff of john carter. not to mention that the original novel is a gajillion times better than avatar or anything else cameron's ever done…
but i kinda dug avatar, anyway.
"This sounds like Avatar 2. Why you are so excited by 4 armed green aliens, but not 2 armed blue aliens simply blows my mind….oh wait 4 arms is so original and "alien", in a Mortal Kombat kind of way."
Right, because the reason Devin didn't like Avatar is because the aliens had 2 arms.
You fucking moron.
Fuck images of Tarks. Will Dejah Toris wear next to nothing like Neytiri or not? That is the deal breaker.
Devoured all the Burroughs stuff as a kid and have high hopes for this. Would love to see someone step and make a good, pulpy treatment of Tarzan. NOT Sommers, please.
I'm confused by the idea that JOHN CARTER OF MARS is not a Pixar movie because friend of mine works at Pixar, and he is definitely working on JOHN CARTER OF MARS. So are you saying this is going to be a Disney movie? I wonder how much the studio logo matters anymore really, now that Lasseter is in so deep at Disney?
Devin likes this because he's decided to like it, just like he decided to hate Avatar. We've seen nothing of JCoM yet, but he likes it. At the same stage in Avatar's development he probably had a dozen 'this is gonna suck' articles published already.
Devins opinion is pretty much irrelevant these days, he's a hollywood tabloid bitch.
Anyway looking forward to JCoM though, sounds great.
Just love it when folks show their ignorance by making the above statement.
It amazes me that people think nothing existed prior to their birth. That all that is written today is original and scifi is only a few years old. Never mind that all those old books in the classic section of the library. You silly inbred son of a bitch.
Loved Cranston's small role on Babylon 5.
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