[QuickTidal]

http://trailers.appl...ney/johncarter/

Oh man. I'm a fan of Burroughs series, so after watching this trailer consider me effing pumped...

...oh and using a Peter Gabriel cover of an Arcade Fire song?! FUCKING Brilliant!

Love the alien design on the green martians (Barsoomians). Dejah Thoris looks good as does Carter, Tars Tarkas (green martian) and even Burroughs himself...(those who don't know the story, Edgar Rice Burroughs is the character who tells the story of his uncle himself)

...SO glad they kept the bit with the grandnephew (Burroughs) finding the tomb ect and the letter from Carter.

Looking hype so far!

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 14 July 2011 - 04:58 PM

[Binder of Demons]

Cheers for that QT, had no inkling of it coming out. Not really familiar with the story either, but that trailer looks really nice and has me intrigued. Will have to keep an eye out.

[QuickTidal]

Binder of Demons, on 14 July 2011 - 04:37 PM, said:

Cheers for that QT, had no inkling of it coming out. Not really familiar with the story either, but that trailer looks really nice and has me intrigued. Will have to keep an eye out.

The pedigree involved in the movie is staggering.

Andrew Stanton directing

Michael Chabon writing

Michael Giacchino on the score

Willem Dafoe and Mark Strong acting in it.

Cannot wait.

[amphibian]

This really does look good. I admit to only a slight twinge realizing that Disney is doing it and we won't get the full Dejah Thoris ahem... effect.

[QuickTidal]

amphibian, on 14 July 2011 - 06:05 PM, said:

This really does look good. I admit to only a slight twinge realizing that Disney is doing it and we won't get the full Dejah Thoris ahem... effect.

Can you imagine the logistics of keeping a true-to-book version of Dejah's outfit on? LOL! That would have to have been CG methinks.

Still...would have been...nice.

[Stalker]

Awesome, I hope it is done justice. I loved the books, so I was really disappointed when the Syfy channel made A Princess of Mars, which was awful.

[amphibian]

QuickTidal, on 14 July 2011 - 06:07 PM, said:

Can you imagine the logistics of keeping a true-to-book version of Dejah's outfit on? LOL! That would have to have been CG methinks.

Still...would have been...nice.

Remember Grendel's mother from the recent Beowulf movie? CGI, but hey...

[QuickTidal]

amphibian, on 14 July 2011 - 07:44 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 14 July 2011 - 06:07 PM, said:

Can you imagine the logistics of keeping a true-to-book version of Dejah's outfit on? LOL! That would have to have been CG methinks.

Still...would have been...nice.

Remember Grendel's mother from the recent Beowulf movie? CGI, but hey...

Tis true indeed. It could have been done.

[volafox]

Looks like fun! I agree that the Disney hands will keep most of the more interesting parts under wraps ( sorry, had to say it ) all the more pity since it looks like not only Dejah would be revealed to all....

[Abyss]

Cheers QT, i'm another who loves the source material and had no idea this was in the pieline.

QuickTidal, on 14 July 2011 - 04:54 PM, said:

...The pedigree involved in the movie is staggering.

...Michael Chabon writing...

THIS gives me hope.

QuickTidal, on 14 July 2011 - 06:07 PM, said:

...Can you imagine the logistics of keeping a true-to-book version of Dejah's outfit on?...

Seriously.

[Steve Halter]

I'm hopeful. This does look promising.

[Primateus]

Never heard of it, but it looked pretty damn awesome!

[King Bear]

Primateus, on 15 July 2011 - 09:18 PM, said:

Never heard of it, but it looked pretty damn awesome!

Exactly.

[QuickTidal]

Holy shit!

Full length trailer debuts! Looks fucking epic (oh and for those who don't know the story, John Carter being from earth is way stronger than he should be and can leap like superman on Mars)

Looks even more epic than I expected.

http://icebergink.bl...or-disneys.html

[Primateus]

yes, yes...I shall see this movie!

[McLovin]

I saw the trailer in the theater a while back and I'm excited to see this. Hopefully they do not utterly obliterate the source material, which Hollywood is wont to do.

[amphibian]

McLovin, on 01 December 2011 - 07:19 PM, said:

I saw the trailer in the theater a while back and I'm excited to see this. Hopefully they do not utterly obliterate the source material, which Hollywood is wont to do.

The director is Andrew Stanton, who directed Wall-E and Finding Nemo and had a hand in basically every ridiculously good movie Pixar ever made.

If alterations are made by Stanton, I generally trust him. If Disney orders changes, then perhaps it's iffier. Anyways, I heard there were considerable reshoots in this movie, which is an ambiguous sign. Trailer looks good though.

Also seems like they've dropped "of Mars" from the title.

[QuickTidal]

amphibian, on 01 December 2011 - 08:21 PM, said:

McLovin, on 01 December 2011 - 07:19 PM, said:

I saw the trailer in the theater a while back and I'm excited to see this. Hopefully they do not utterly obliterate the source material, which Hollywood is wont to do.

The director is Andrew Stanton, who directed Wall-E and Finding Nemo and had a hand in basically every ridiculously good movie Pixar ever made.

If alterations are made by Stanton, I generally trust him. If Disney orders changes, then perhaps it's iffier. Anyways, I heard there were considerable reshoots in this movie, which is an ambiguous sign. Trailer looks good though.

Also seems like they've dropped "of Mars" from the title.

The reshoots were explained by Stanton, and they aren't because Disney was asking for things (thankfully), but an altogether more interesting reason.

Stanton Said:

You know, I planned reshoots for after I got an assembly, so I had real objectivity about what it needed. That’s all we do at Pixar. The truth is, we rip down and put up our movies a minimum of four times over four years. How I learned to make a movie by shooting it four times. That’s how me make them.

People wonder what the magic elixir of Pixar is. It’s this: we shoot the movie four times!

There’s no rocket science to it. It’s like saying, you’re a musician. You get to go and write a song, but you only get to touch the strings once on your guitar. Once. And then we take it away from you. As opposed to just going into your office and just strum until you get a great tune.

To me, that’s just how art is formed. So, again, no huge epiphany.

It’s definitely more cumbersome with live action, so I couldn’t set up four reshoots, but damn, I’ll always ask for as many as I can get, because I don’t find any embarrassment in that.

It’s like me saying to you, you can all go and write a piece about what we talked about today, but you only get to write it once. You don’t get to change a word once it’s set down. And that’s how movies are made, and it’s fucked up. It should be that you should somehow be able to balance economics and let the artist be an artist, and not be afraid of failure or trial and error.

You do it with takes, right? Everybody gets 30 takes, 10 takes, five takes until we get it right. Why should I suddenly be omniscient and know that something will work, no matter how it’s written on the paper? It’s a different beast when it’s on the screen. Believe me, we know that at Pixar.

There’s a knowledge that doesn’t come any sooner until you watch it. So why not plan for that? If history’s shown that, for 70 fricking years, why aren’t you planning a process?

Why, if it’s so proven that way, don’t you set up a process that acknowledges it? It’s been so forever.

That’s what Pixar did. We didn’t know how other people made films, we just used logic, which it turns out, nobody uses.

I couldn’t correct the whole screwed up process of live-action movie making, but that’s certainly on my agenda someday. But by hook or by crook, I managed to get on screen what I wanted to see. So I looked and I learned a tonne on the way.

[McLovin]

QuickTidal, on 01 December 2011 - 08:50 PM, said:

We didn’t know how other people made films, we just used logic, which it turns out, nobody uses.

Stanton's being more than a little unfair there, IMO. Pretty obvious that it's a LOT easier to tweak computer animations than it is live action. The cost of making a movie would skyrocket, and fewer would get put out. On the other hand, that might not be a bad thing, as long as it raises the quality...

[amphibian]

It's also Stanton's public perspective on the reshoots. There's often a ton of backstage politicking that goes into reshoots and shuffling of things that we'll never see that could offer a very different perspective on that decision from both Stanton's side, Disney's side and whoever else has a major say in this process.