WOLVERINE stars Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins are set to join the live-action
JOHN CARTER OF MARS film adaptation for Disney per
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER.
Based on TARZAN author Edgar Rice Burroughs classic sci-fi pulp stories, JOHN CARTERN OF MARS centers on a Civil War vet who finds himself mysteriously transported to Mars, where his involvement with warring races of the dying planet force him to rediscover his humanity.
Below is a little history of the book series from WIKIPEDIA.ORG...
John Carter of Mars, the eleventh and final book in the famous Barsoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs, is not actually a novel but rather a collection of two John Carter of Mars stories.
The first, "John Carter and the Giant of Mars," is a juvenile story penned by Burrough's son John "Jack" Coleman Burroughs, and claimed to have been revised by Burroughs. It was written for a Whitman Big Little Book, illustrated by Jack Burroughs that was published in 1940 and then republished in Amazing Stories the next year.[1]
The second story, "Skeleton Men of Jupiter," was first published in Amazing Stories in 1943. Intended as the first in a series of novelettes to be later collected in book form, in the fashion of Llana of Gathol, it ends with the plot unresolved, and the intended sequels were never written. Several other writers have written pastiche endings for the story.
The first edition of John Carter of Mars (a title that Burroughs never actually used for any book in the Barsoom series) was published in 1964 by Canaveral Press, fourteen years after Burrough's death. This book is not highly regarded by fans of the Barsoom series and is generally considered something of an afterthought. However, in the book Master of Adventure: The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Richard A. Lupoff, the editor of the 1964 Canaveral Press edition of John Carter of Mars, writes that it is interesting for its contrast between "real" Burroughs ("Skeleton Men of Jupiter") and "ersatz" Burroughs ("John Carter and the Giant of Mars").
Kitsch will play the title character, John Carter, while Collins is playing Dejah Thoris, heir to the throne of Mars' Helium kingdom.
Lynn Collins
Yes, I posted a picture of Lynn Collins over Taylor Kitsch because she's hot. Anyway...
Andrew Stanton (WALL-E) wrote the screenplay with Mark Andrews and will direct. Producers are Jim Morris and Colin Wilson. Filming begins at the end of 2009.
