John Carter

John Carter Trailer
John Carter Trailer 2012 -- Official Movie Trailer | HD - YouTube

Two cast members from Wolverine. It looks like it might be a rental for me. I liked the music though.

Looks promising

Tars Tarkas!

The last attempt at this (Traci Lords Princess of Mars 2009) was soooo miserably awful that I despaired of ever seeing a good version of the book(s). I always wanted to make A Princess of Mars into a film, so I am hugely invested in someone doing a good job with the material.

Could be interesting though personally I'm not big on love stories in action/adventure films.

Disney? Welp, there goes the book's rampant nudity.

Wow, color me unimpressed and I was actually looking forward to this movie. It looks like a cross between Prince of Persia and Conan to me. So much for Mars being the Red planet, looks a lot more iike the American Southwest than another planet; it's like the Stargate version of Mars where almost every planet looks like Vancouver.

Treadwell said:

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Disney? Welp, there goes the book's rampant nudity.

Does that mean there won't be a Gor series of flicks?

Are the books worth a read? I have heard they are very outdated and haven't stood up to time very well.

I breezed through them all around 7th grade. They didn't make a huge impression. I haven't cracked one since, so I don't know how they'd fare.

The thing about John Carter of Mars is, it's one of the most famous sci-fi movies NEVER made. Studios and directors and scriptwriters have been trying to get a film adaptation made for as long as there's BEEN a film industry and have always failed!

So, imagine my surprise when I discovered last night that The Asylum, the same B-movie studio that brought us the Transmorphers movies and all those crappy SyFy Channel monster movies, filmed Princess of Mars back in 2009 for a direct-to-DVD release starring B-movie faves Antonio Sabato, Jr. as John Carter (a veteran of the IRAQ war in their version ) and Traci Lords as Dejah Thoris!



I can GUARANTEE you this will be prominently displayed on Wal*Mart store shelves come March, when the REAL film adaptation hits theaters, just as was the case with their recent direct-to-DVD movie Almighty Thor, starring Richard Grieco as Loki!

Wow. That looks gash.

Jack T Chance said:

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The thing about John Carter of Mars is, it's one of the most famous sci-fi movies NEVER made. Studios and directors and scriptwriters have been trying to get a film adaptation made for as long as there's BEEN a film industry and have always failed!

So, imagine my surprise when I discovered last night that The Asylum, the same B-movie studio that brought us the Transmorphers movies and all those crappy SyFy Channel monster movies, filmed Princess of Mars back in 2009 for a direct-to-DVD release starring B-movie faves Antonio Sabato, Jr. as John Carter (a veteran of the IRAQ war in their version ) and Traci Lords as Dejah Thoris!



I can GUARANTEE you this will be prominently displayed on Wal*Mart store shelves come March, when the REAL film adaptation hits theaters, just as was the case with their recent direct-to-DVD movie Almighty Thor, starring Richard Grieco as Loki!

Almighty Thor was the biggest and I do mean the biggest piece of crap ever filmed The sy fy channel are horrible at thor movies this is the second one that I have seen and they both suck rotten eggs.

I'll pass on John Carter. The trailer makes the film look terrible.

$5 DVD bin at Walmart is right

ursus43 said:

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Does that mean there won't be a Gor series of flicks?

This has all the earmarks of Gor, from what I can see...Man mysteriously transported to a Counter-Earth, two moons, less gravity, primitive armies, battles, D/S erotic interplay, otherworldly creatures (priest-kings), themes of honor, etc.

I know there has been a lot of comparison of John Norman' stories to Burroughs's The Mucker, and others over the years...but this seems blatantly Gorean to me.

ursus43 said:

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Does that mean there won't be a Gor series of flicks?

There were two already!

Gor (1987) - IMDb
Gor II (1989) - IMDb

Treadwell said:

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There were two already!

Gor (1987) - IMDb
Gor II (1989) - IMDb

Yeah, those two movies were just gawd-AWFUL! They are best forgotten! They did no service to the books, that is for sure. (The first 15 books or so were very good...the rest were mired in repetitive dross!)

If this movie actually is a take on the Gorean world, it just HAS to be better than those crappy two movies.

PotionMistress said:

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If this movie actually is a take on the Gorean world, it just HAS to be better than those crappy two movies.

A Princess of Mars (1917)

Tarnsman of Gor, (1966)

Gor is clearly inspired by the John Carter stories, not the other way around.

You can read all the Edgar Rice Burroughs books for free over at Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks

Larry Young said:

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A Princess of Mars (1917)

Tarnsman of Gor, (1966)

Gor is clearly inspired by the John Carter stories, not the other way around.

Actually, A PRINCESS OF MARS was first published in magazine form in 1912. Same year as TARZAN OF THE APES.

Wow, that really wrecks the point, that it came way before Gor, doesn't it?

PotionMistress said:

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Yeah, those two movies were just gawd-AWFUL! They are best forgotten!

Yeah, MST3K even riffed the second one (under the title "Outlaw).

My apologies…I see that I couldn’t have been more wrong about this. I did a little more research and it seems Gor is most certainly derivative of Barsoom. I guess being a product of the 60s and 70s and having read all the Gor books and very little of Burroughs, I was ignorant of just how closely Norman modeled his series after his predecessor’s. To think that after all these decades I didn’t know that….jeesh, shame on me! Sorry!