Is John Carter of Mars movie on hold

[Evil_Captor]

Over on the IMDB message board for “John Carter of Mars” is a thread in which the OP says John Favreau has said the JCOM project is on indefinite hold because Favreau had to take on the Iron Man movie project on the SciFi Wire (at the SciFi Channel site).

I was able to confirm this, as the May 8 edition of Science Fiction Weekly has this quote from Favreau:

Director Jon Favreau (Zathura) told SCI FI Wire that Paramount has put the the long-gestating film adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars on hold, pending the success of his next directing project, Iron Man, and the upcoming 11th Star Trek film. “It ain’t happening now,” Favreau said in an interview at the Saturn Awards in Universal City, Calif., earlier this week. “Iron Man is my next film, and I hope that I get to do Carter as well. So that would, by definition, be not a priority for them.”

What I can’t figure is why the loss of Favreau means Paramount is putting the project on hold. It’s not like he’s Speilberg or anything. The quotes he was giving when he took the project on had all kinda red flags for me, and I’m kinda glad he’s moving on to Iron Man. Why can’t they slide in someone else? (Kerry Conran woulda been perfect.)

[Bryan_Ekers]

Well, ever since he went off to Africa and his girlfriend lost the baby, it’s just not… oops, sorry.

[N9IWP]

Actually Kerry Conran was attached. And so was Robert Rodriguez.
I’m guessing Paramount doesn’t want to find a 4th director.

read all about the various attempts to make the movie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carter_of_Mars_(film)

Brian