John Carter of Mars begins principal photography
Produced for Walt Disney Pictures by Jim Morris (WALL-E, Ratatouille) and Colin Wilson (Avatar, War of the Worlds), the live action/animation film marks Academy Award-winning director/writer Andrew Stanton's (Finding Nemo, WALLE) first foray into live action. Stanton directed and co-wrote the screenplay for Disney/Pixar's WALL-E, which earned the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature (2008); Stanton was nominated for an Oscar for the screenplay. He made his directorial debut with Disney/Pixar's Finding Nemo, garnering an Academy Award-nomination for Best Original Screenplay and winning the Oscar for Best Animated Feature (2003). He has worked as a screenwriter and/or executive producer on Disney/Pixar's Toy Story, A Bug's Life (which he also co-directed), Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Ratatouille and Up.
"I have been waiting my whole life to see the characters and worlds of John Carter of Mars realized on the big screen," says Stanton. "It is just a wonderful bonus that I have anything to do with it."
The stellar ensemble cast is led by Taylor Kitsch (NBC'S Friday Night LightsX-Men Origins: Wolverine) in the title role, Lynn Collins (50 First Dates, X-Men Origins: Wolverine) as the warrior princess Dejah Thoris and Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe (Spider-Man 3, Shadow of a Vampire) as Martian inhabitant Tars Tarkas. The cast also includes Thomas Haden Church (Sideways, Spider-Man 3), Polly Walker (upcoming Clash of the Titans, Patriot Games), Samantha Morton (Elizabeth: The Golden Age, In America), Mark Strong (Sherlock Holmes, Body of Lies), Ciaran Hinds (Munich, There Will Be Blood), British actor Dominic West (300, Chicago), James Purefoy (Vanity Fair, Resident Evil) and Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad). Daryl Sabara (Disney's A Christmas Carol, Spy Kids) takes the role of John Carter's teenaged nephew, Edgar Rice Burroughs.
The creative team includes Oscar-nominated production designer Nathan Crowley (Public Enemies, The Dark Knight, Batman Begins), costume designer Mayes Rubeo (Avatar, Apocalypto), cinematographer Daniel Mindel (Star Trek, Mission Impossible III, Spy Game) and video effects supervisor Peter Chiang (The Reader, The Bourne Ultimatum).
John Carter comes to theaters March 9th, 2012 and stars Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Bryan Cranston, Mark Strong, Willem Dafoe, Ciarán Hinds, Dominic West, Thomas Haden Church. The film is directed by Andrew Stanton.
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Narzion
yeah, where the f*ck is something about 1906
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ZanyZap
Agreed, Soy. 1906 will be interesting as well, but I haven't heard or seen any news in awhile.
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DEZZMOND
Andrew Stanton always has a very warm vision and creative ideas, and I believe this is going to be a huge movie, especially with all those great actors in the cast.
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gandoff2169
If anyone who readd this serise would know,, this is going to SUCK... I read the first three chapters, and the books are horriable. The writer basicly ripped off the idea of Flash Gorden, but twisted it up. Now Flash was ok, but this serise sucked... Director is good, but this is going to not only be disappointing, but depressing...
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Narzion
this is going to be like avatar with good written story, andrew stanton is genious( one of my favorite directors)-and creative team is awsome-i want to see this even more than hobbit
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Johnnyblaze09
This is a red hot fantasy movie for next year! With the big challenge of Andrew Stanton to direct live action film. That this maybe also the first Pixar work with real actors combined animation, if I am right. The makers were all from acclaimed movies, wow, what a production! And with Avatar kind of idea, only this one's not green & cold but red & hot. (hehe)
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Null and Void.
I am so pumped for this. Andrew Stanton can do whatever the f*ck he wants and I'll be the first in line for it.
And when is Brad Bird's "1906" coming?!
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Cripple
Sweet. This is filming my home state.
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