# Sky Captain director -- Princess of Mars next? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 30, 2004, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sky-captain-director-princess-of-mars-next/257662 "2004-07-30T23:21:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sky-captain-director-princess-of-mars-next/257662/1 "2004-07-30T23:21:53Z")
> **[Kerry Conran in talks to direct A PRINCESS OF MARS'!'!'](http://legacy.aintitcool.com/node/18072)** > > Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with some interesting news. I was awoken by a phone call today telling me that The Hollywood Reporter has reported that Kerry Conran, director of the upcoming ode to geeks sci-fi/fantasy/adventure SKY CAPTAIN AND... [http://www.thehollywoodreporter.com/thr/film/brief\_display.jsp?vnu\_content\_id=1000589936](http://www.thehollywoodreporter.com/thr/film/brief_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000589936) Nothing final. Hard to say how good he would be for PofM without seeing Sky Captain (or for that matter even if SC goes well doesn’t mean PofM would…) Maybe he will specialize in “pulp” movies. Brian ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2004, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sky-captain-director-princess-of-mars-next/257662/2 "2004-07-30T23:42:04Z")
Huh. I’d heard Robert Rodriguez was set to direct it, but your second link says he resigned from DGA and is thus now ineligible. Anyone know why he resigned? ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sky-captain-director-princess-of-mars-next/257662/3 "2004-07-31T00:23:57Z")
[http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/archive/index.php/t-28529.html](http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/archive/index.php/t-28529.html) Basically he wanted to share credit on “Sin City”, but the DGA sez that there is only one director for a film. Rather than taking all the credit (or none I guess), he resigned from the DGA. Brian ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sky-captain-director-princess-of-mars-next/257662/4 "2004-07-31T02:22:12Z")
I don’t get it. Animated films have co-directors all the time. Don’t people like the Farrelly Brothers co-direct? Am I missing something here? ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sky-captain-director-princess-of-mars-next/257662/5 "2004-07-31T02:41:14Z")
Even NON animated films can have multiple directors – the Coen brothers have done quite well for themselves. I don’t get what the problem is. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sky-captain-director-princess-of-mars-next/257662/6 "2004-07-31T03:32:25Z")
No idea. I thought maybe the Coen bros weren’t DGA but apparently they are. Hah! found it: [http://www.dga.org/dga\_members/ai\_au\_spring03\_pg3.php3](http://www.dga.org/dga_members/ai_au_spring03_pg3.php3) There you go. They got waivers beacause they are a “bona fide team”. I couldn’t find anything about animation, but didn’t try too hard. Brian ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sky-captain-director-princess-of-mars-next/257662/7 "2004-07-31T03:45:29Z")
How stupid. Things like that should be guidelines, not absurdly restrictive rules. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2004, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sky-captain-director-princess-of-mars-next/257662/8 "2004-07-31T04:54:18Z")
I think all the Coen Brothers films just list Joel as director, and Ethan as the producer. Anyway, director notwithstanding, I’m very interested to see a John Carter movie, and I just hope they manage to capture the spirit of the books.