Brian
I would love to see this happen, but I have been strung along on the possibility of a Barsoom movie too may times to have anything resembling hope.
I will believe when I walk into the theater for the premier, and not before.
BTW: Did anyone else think the sword in the Prince Caspian poster was really cool? I actually am looking forward to the wall hanging version, and I don't normally buy wall hangers.I don’t see Disney doing a John Carter of Mars film anywhere close to right.
How on earth would DISNEY handle the nudity? As i recall, the martians wear very little-and the women are especially vouptuous.
That’s true, although I don’t believe we’ve met? 
Cite? Lots of them, please.
I’ll need it for… uh… research.
They mostly wear leather harnesses that (it is strongly implied) do not conceal the naughty bits. But Burroughs’ descriptions of them are scanty (snerk), and I’m sure a studio could work up a version that covers everything you would expect to see covered at the beach and still be true to the spirit of the original.
Note that it is Pixar, not Disney proper. (not that Pixar has done anything above PG)
Brian
I don’t care so much about the nudity – I just want to be sure the film adaptation is true to the Edwardian spirit of the books. No feminism! Women are prizes to be won! Real men will fight to the death to win them! (That doesn’t mean women can’t be brave, strong and capable; many of Burroughs’ female characters are. But the gender dynamic remains the same.)
I agree. What’s the point of a film adapation of the Barsoom books, if you don’t try to recreate the spirit of the books? If you just want to make a generic swords and sandals movie with a musclebound hero, a wisecracking sidekick, and a spunky princess, can’t Hollywood crank that one out without peeling the title from a nearly 100 year old series of books?
And the nudity angle is simple, look at the book covers. It’s not hard to add a few centimeters of harness to cover various dangly and/or fuzzy bits.
Milk it, Hollywood. Milk it. Milk the 20th century dry of all its books, plays, comics, radio dramas, and television shows! Soon people will think the whole era was as worthless as the filth you churn out of its gaping maw! MUHAHAHAHA!!!
An update! Leo Laporte had an artist wander into his studio with some friends of Leo’s. Said artist is working on the John Carter of Mars movie. It is not a Pixar picture, but they are connected to the production. Said artist let it slip that it will be live action! (Didn’t catch his name, but he’s done a recent Jethro Tull album cover.)
I think it will be impossible to satisfy the fans with this. The first book I bought with my own hard earned cash was an ERB novel (a fifty cent Ballantine Books edition of The Beasts of Tarzan published in 1963 which I still own) This lead me to the rest of teh Tarzan series and the John Carter series.
I would love a good treatment of the Mars novels, but it would be hard to meet my expectations.
This one? The whole thing is pretty cool.
As for Mars, Pixar doesn’t usually do people and when they do it’s usually fairly cutesy. Are they going to go for something like Beowulf? It’s hard to imagine this being done both well and with respect to the original material.
- That is news from March.
- Andrew Stanton is going to direct.
- Stanton has already responded in interviews during the promotion of Wall-E that it will be aimed at adults, and might be animation or might not, they haven’t yet decided.
- I’ve never read John Carter of Mars so I really won’t care about this property until I get to see something substantial that tickles my fancy.
I’d rather see them adapt the Danny Dunn books, if they’re really looking for material for kid-positive books.
*Recent *Jethro Tull? I had no idea.
As in post-80s, from what I’ve heard, Tull’s best days are well behind them.
Well, I saw them live in '72 (I think.) I had no idea they were still performing.
I ran spotlight for Tull about 12-13 years ago. It was one of the weirdest, creepiest rock shows I’ve ever seen (and I’ve seen more concerts that I can even hope to count in my nearly 28 years in the bidness).
It seems Ian had broken his leg in South America about 2 weeks prior to our show, so he did the whole thing in a wheelchair. I understand he did his whole world tour that way. He still had a ton of energy, and moved all over the stage, but it was very weird.