Mars will be the first live-action effort from Andrew Stanton, the Oscar-winning director of Pixar favorites Wall-E and Finding Nemo. The film, a big-budget adaptation of the series by Edgar Rice Burroughs, tells the story of a civil war veteran (Kitsch) who is transported to Mars to fight in an epic war between the planet's opposing races. Kitsch's X-Men co-star Lynn Collins has also been cast. Disney is aiming for an early 2010 start date, with dreams of launching a blockbuster franchise on the same level as Pirates of the Caribbean.
For those who don't know who John Carter of Mars is... You need to read more. Below is a Frank Frazetta book cover from one of the early paperbacks. John Carter was a dude who somehow finds himself on Mars, and because of the lower gravity, he is like their Superman--in a medieval kind of swords and sorcery way.
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