‘John Carter Of Mars’ is an upcoming American film about John Carter, the lead character in much of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s 11-volume Barsoom series. It is directed by Andrew Stanton, (wrote and directed ‘Finding Nemo’ and ‘WALL-E’) and stars Taylor Kitsch as Carter.
It is a sci-fi fantasy about a Civil War vet (the eponymous John Carter) who battles 12 foot tall green barbarians on Mars.
The film is based on the first story to feature ‘John Carter, A Princess Of Mars’, which was serialised from 1912 and first published as a novel in 1917. Carter is an American Civil War veteran who goes to sleep in a cave after being chased by Apache Indians and wakes up on Mars, here called Barsoom. Formerly an Earthlike world, it became less hospitable to life due to its advanced age: as the oceans evaporated, and the atmosphere thinned, the planet devolved into partial barbarism with the inhabitants hardened and warlike, fighting one another to survive. Barsoomians distribute scarce water supplies via a worldwide system of canals, controlled by quarreling city-states. The Martian atmosphere is maintained by a power plant.
Carter rescues a humanoid Red Martian princess, Dejah Thoris, (Played by Lynn Collins, best known for her role as Kayla Silverfox in the live-action film ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’.) from the belligerent four-armed Green Martians, whose respect he gains for his superior strength and fighting ability. He enlists the Green Martians’ assistance in winning a civil war, and saves Mars from destruction when its atmosphere plant malfunctions.
Now that’s a premise. This film will be out in 2012.
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