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Barsoom Movie in 2012? - 11/1/2009 7:33:23 PM

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'John Carter of Mars'

Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom tale, 'A Princess of Mars', getting made into a film. Currently in pre-production with an estimated release date in 2012, & primary photography to start in early 2010.

Andrew Stanton directing -- he wrote & directed 'Finding Nemo' & 'Wall-E'. ('John Carter of Mars' will be live action & will have Taylor Kitsch in the lead & Willem Dafoe as Tars Tarkas.)

Or at least, that's the current news. Fingers crossed, cuz this early in these things can be kinda iffy.

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RE: Barsoom Movie in 2012? - 11/1/2009 7:44:27 PM

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Willem Dafoe is set to be in it!

YUM.

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RE: Barsoom Movie in 2012? - 11/1/2009 7:44:35 PM

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Sounds interesting, Kia.

i read some of the Barsoom books earlier this year.

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RE: Barsoom Movie in 2012? - 11/1/2009 7:46:54 PM

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<threadjack, sorry>

FLUFFY HEEELP!

I need a good recipe for pumpkin soup!

Rats. I'll PM her. To get the thread back on topic: Kia, I've not heard of this story before. You read the book and liked it? What was it that you liked about it? (No spoilers, please!)

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RE: Barsoom Movie in 2012? - 11/1/2009 8:29:11 PM

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ERB is a GAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWD.

and I have (for pay) had to draw sci-fi 4 armed giants before, LOVE THEM, love John Carter, been waiting for tech and software and chromakey and greenscreen to catch up th this series, am VERY VERY HAPPY, good for you for posting this, DK!

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RE: Barsoom Movie in 2012? - 11/1/2009 10:56:33 PM

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Chromakey is old tech. Really old tech.

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RE: Barsoom Movie in 2012? - 11/2/2009 12:51:38 AM

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FR, after read thru

'A Princess of Mars' was written by Edgar Rice Burroughs some 90-ish years ago, the first in a series of 11 Barsoom books. (Barsoom being ERB's alternate-universe Mars that is the background of the stories.)

ERB is most famously the author of the original Tarzan stories that have sourced so much Tarzan-a-mania since then (I was a big fan of 'George of the Jungle' as a kid, but Christopher Lambert was pretty hunky in that very pretty '80's version of Tarzan . .. . .)

The Barsoom stories (also known colloquially as the John Carter of Mars stories, with reference to the protagonist) are considered to be classic pulp fiction, adventure stories featuring aliens indigenous to Mars / Barsoom, & have been inspiring creative persons ever since. I read them because of Robert Heinlein, who was a huge fan.

Dreamy, the big advantage to reading them is that they're short. I'm not much on most pre-modern literature, the language can so often be turgid, inaccessible, or otherwise not my thing, but 'Princess of Mars' was okay. I don't think I read more than the first one tho' I do have this vague desire to work my way thru the whole series a coupla times, but that's a writerly thing for me . . . .

I found much of what was in the book 'anthropologically / sociologically' interesting, quaintly historical, that kinda thing . . . & as adventure stories they moved along well enough.

I expect I may very well like the movies better than the books, but we'll see.

&, yeah, Willem Dafoe. Mmmmmmm, mmmmmmmm, good . . . . . . . He's on my naked-alphabet list, but that's a whole other thread . .. ..

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RE: Barsoom Movie in 2012? - 11/2/2009 4:05:03 AM

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Kia, I hope it comes to pass; it could be awesome on the big screen (or awful, but let's be positive).

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RE: Barsoom Movie in 2012? - 11/2/2009 10:25:49 AM

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http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/62

Read it online kids.

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RE: Barsoom Movie in 2012? - 11/2/2009 11:11:31 AM

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That's an interesting link. Is it just the Tarzan stories that are still in copyright, then?

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RE: Barsoom Movie in 2012? - 11/2/2009 1:10:05 PM

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Since copyright's basically only good for about 70 years post-mortem, at most, I'm suspecting that everything ERB is public domain, or nearly so . . . .. .

& Des, thanks for that link!!

& Level -- Hell, yeah. The books are not some fave of mine, so the film-makers have a lot of leeway to make a dynamite movie, as far as I'm concerned . . . . .

(& I won't post a separate thread for it, yet, but there's a Pern movie in development -- woo-hoo!!! That'll be exciting. Updates, if there are any, will follow . . . . Development is too precarious a stage of film-making to get too terribly het up about, but fingers most firmly crossed on that . . .. ..)

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RE: Barsoom Movie in 2012? - 11/2/2009 2:48:46 PM

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ORIGINAL: Moonhead

That's an interesting link. Is it just the Tarzan stories that are still in copyright, then?

There are Tarzan stories available.
Under Burroughs, go scroll down. Link brings up all B authors.
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/b

I love the gutenberg project, and most stuff is available in HTML which is so much easier to read.

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