Edgar Rice Burroughs really hit the ground running with "A Princess of Mars." Wow.
As for the film, "John Carter;" it's much better than it gets credit for. It began as a labor of love but the Disney exec who supported it the most left the company (IIRC) and his successors weren't about to support a film they didn't greenlight.
Edgar Rice Burroughs really hit the ground running with "A Princess of Mars." Wow.
As for the film, "John Carter;" it's much better than it gets credit for. It began as a labor of love but the Disney exec who supported it the most left the company (IIRC) and his successors weren't about to support a film they didn't greenlight.
Worse, because of every other sci-fi film that's been released for the last 50 years, too much of the audience thought "John Carter" was a copycat instead of being the novel that started it all!
An uneven but fascinating book into the sausage factory that "John Carter" crawled out of is "John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood" by Michael D. Sellers. Sellers has his own checkered, uneven history; the book is exhaustive and repetitive; and after you're done, you'll be amazed again that "John Carter" turned out as well as it did and even more amazed that ANYTHING gets made and released successfully.
Edgar Rice Burroughs really hit the ground running with "A Princess of Mars." Wow.
As for the film, "John Carter;" it's much better than it gets credit for. It began as a labor of love but the Disney exec who supported it the most left the company (IIRC) and his successors weren't about to support a film they didn't greenlight.
Worse, because of every other sci-fi film that's been released for the last 50 years, too much of the audience thought "John Carter" was a copycat instead of being the novel that started it all!
An uneven but fascinating book into the sausage factory that "John Carter" crawled out of is "John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood" by Michael D. Sellers. Sellers has his own checkered, uneven history; the book is exhaustive and repetitive; and after you're done, you'll be amazed again that "John Carter" turned out as well as it did and even more amazed that ANYTHING gets made and released successfully.