Theater Release Date: 2012

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Director(s): Andrew Stanton

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Genre: Science fiction,Fantasy

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Studio: Walt Disney Pictures,Buena Vista Distribution

Cast: Dominic West Mark Strong Polly Walker Samantha Morton Thomas Church James Purefoy Daryl Sabara Willem Dafoe Lynn Collins Taylor Kitsch

Summary:

John Carter of Mars is a planned film about John Carter, the lead character in much of Edgar Rice Burroughs's 11-volume Barsoom series. It will be directed by Andrew Stanton and stars Taylor Kitsch as Carter. The film is based on the first story to feature John Carter, A Princess of Mars, which was serialised from 1912 and first published as a novel in 1917. Carter is an American Civil War veteran who goes to sleep in a cave after being chased by Apache Indians and wakes up on Mars, here called Barsoom. Formerly an Earthlike world, it became less hospitable to life due to its advanced age: as the oceans evaporated, and the atmosphere thinned, the planet devolved into partial barbarism with the inhabitants hardened and warlike, fighting one another to survive. Barsoomians distribute scarce water supplies via a worldwide system of canals, controlled by quarreling city-states. The Martian atmosphere is maintained by a power plant. Carter rescues a humanoid Red Martian princess, Dejah Thoris, from the belligerent four-armed Green Martians, whose respect he gains for his superior strength and fighting ability. He enlists the Green Martians' assistance in winning a civil war, and saves