Comments on: Thomas Haden Church Joins John Carter of Mars?

By: Rob Keyes

Rob Keyes — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 01:30:07 +0000

@ JalexM,

Very interesting… John Carter of Mars’ first appearance was in Edgar Rice Burroughs’ novel, ‘A Princess of Mars’

To your other point, Tom Cruise apparently was interested in the project and met with Disney about doing a trilogy of films (likely, this project) – Not sure how long that was ago before he dropped out.

By: Carter

Carter — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:44:50 +0000

I’m looking forward to this as well. I wasn’t impressed with the casting thus far, but Church isn’t a bad choice. I just hope they use the old marvel comics as reference points.

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:19:05 +0000

So far so good.
I am looking forward to this.

By: JalexM

JalexM — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:21:29 +0000

Back in 1993, I used to subscribe to a mainstream movie magazine, which nowadays is available online only. Back then I remember there was a column about rumors and inside info on productions that were being worked on at the time. John Carter of Mars was one of them. Back then it was called “The Princess of Mars”. The studios back then were not too eager to make sci-fi adventures in an often manner like we see today. So the major studio who had the rights to the novel’s adaptation would only green light this movie if two huge stars were attached. These were Tom Cruise and Julia Roberts.

I guess that since tTom and Julie were not interested, the film went to development hell until now.