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The film depicts an astronaut's struggle to survive on Mars after being left behind and NASA's efforts to return him to Earth. It also stars Jessica Chastain , Jeff Daniels , Kristen Wiig , Chiwetel Ejiofor , Sean Bean , Michael Peña , Kate Mara , Sebastian Stan , Aksel Hennie , Mackenzie Davis , Donald Glover , and Benedict Wong .
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Film Year Description 2036 Origin Unknown: 2018 After a mission to Mars results in a mysterious shuttle disappearance, mission controller Mackenzie “Mack” Wilson and an AI named ARTI discover a potentially alien cube on Mars that teleports to Earth, leading to revelations about the shuttle disaster, humanity's fate, and Mack's own identity within a cosmic intrigue.
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In 1881, Edgar Rice Burroughs attends the funeral of his uncle, John Carter, a former American Civil War Confederate Armycaptain who died suddenly. Per Carter's instructions, the body is put in a tomb that can be unlocked only from the inside. His attorney gives Carter's personal journal for Burroughs to read, in the hope of finding clues explainin...
Taylor Kitsch as John Carter, a Confederate army captain who is transported to Mars.Lynn Collins as Dejah Thoris, the Princess of Helium.Origins
The film is largely based on A Princess of Mars (1917), the first in a series of 11 novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs to feature the interplanetary hero John Carter (and in later volumes the adventures of his children with Dejah Thoris). The story was originally serialized in six monthly installments (from February through to July 1912) in the pulp magazine The All-Story; those chapters, originally titled "Under the Moons of Mars", were then collected as a novel and published in hardcover five y...
Bob Clampett involvement
In 1931, Looney Tunes director Bob Clampett approached Edgar Rice Burroughs with the idea of adapting A Princess of Mars into a feature-length animated film. Burroughs responded enthusiastically, recognizing that a regular live-action feature would face various limitations to adapt accurately, so he advised Clampett to write an original animated adventure for John Carter. Working with Burroughs' son John Coleman Burroughs in 1935, Clampett used rotoscope and other hand-drawn techniques to cap...
Disney progression
During the late 1950s, famous stop-motion animation effects director Ray Harryhausen expressed interest in filming the novels, but it was not until the 1980s that producers Mario Kassar and Andrew G. Vajna bought the rights for Walt Disney Studios via Cinergi Pictures, with a view to creating a competitor to Star Wars and Conan the Barbarian. Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio were hired to write, while John McTiernan and Tom Cruise were approached to direct and star. The project collapsed because...
Filming
Principal photography commenced at Longcross Studios, London, in January 2010 and ended in Kanab, Utah in July 2010. Locations in Utah included Lake Powell and the counties of Grand, Wayne, and Kane. A month-long reshoot took place in Playa Vista, Los Angeles. The film was shot in the Panavision anamorphic format on Kodak 35mm film. Stanton denied assertions that he had gone over budget and stated that he had been allowed a longer reshoot because he had stayed on budget and on time. However,...
Marketing
The head of Walt Disney Studios Marketing during the production was M. T. Carney, an industry outsider who previously ran a marketing boutique in New York. Stanton often rejected marketing ideas from the studio, according to those who worked on the film. Stanton's ideas were used instead, and he ignored criticism that using Led Zeppelin's 1975 song "Kashmir" in the trailer would make it seem less current to the contemporary younger audiences the film sought. He also chose billboard imagery th...
Music and soundtrack
In February 2010, Michael Giacchino revealed in an interview he would be scoring the film. Walt Disney Recordsreleased the soundtrack on March 6, 2012, three days before the film's release.
Theatrical run
Although the original film release date was June 8, 2012, in January 2011 Disney moved the release date to March 9, 2012. A teaser trailer for the film premiered on July 14, 2011 and was shown in 3D and 2D with showings of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2; the official trailer premiered on November 30, 2011. On February 5, 2012 an extended commercial promoting the movie aired during the Super Bowl, and before the day of the game, Andrew Stanton, a Massachusetts native, held a spe...
Home media
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment released John Carter on Blu-ray, DVD, and digital download on June 5, 2012. The home media release was made available in three different physical packages: a four-disc combo pack (1 disc Blu-ray 3D, 1-disc Blu-ray, 1 DVD, and 1-disc digital copy), a two-disc combo pack (1 disc Blu-ray, 1 disc DVD), and one-disc DVD. John Carter was also made available in 3D High Definition, High Definition, and Standard Definition Digital.[clarification needed] Additiona...
Critical response
One week before the film's release, Disney removed an embargo on reviews of the film. The film holds a 52% rating at the film review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 235 reviews, its consensus reads: "While John Carter looks terrific and delivers its share of pulpy thrills, it also suffers from uneven pacing and occasionally incomprehensible plotting and characterization". At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average out of 100 to critics' reviews, the film holds a score of 51...
Box office
John Carter grossed $73.1 million in North America and $211.1 million in other countries, for a worldwide total as of June 28, 2012[update] of $284.1 million. It had a worldwide opening of $100.8 million. In North America, it opened in first place on Friday, March 9, 2012 with $9.81 million. For three days, it had grossed $30.2 million, falling to second place for the weekend, behind The Lorax. Outside North America, it topped the weekend chart, opening with $70.6 million. Its highest-grossin...
Prior to the film's release, the filmmakers reported that John Carter was intended to be the first film of a trilogy. Producers Jim Morris and Lindsey Collins began work on a sequel based on Burroughs' second novel, The Gods of Mars.However, the film's poor box office performance put plans for sequels into question. In June 2012 co-writer Mark Andr...
Miller, Thomas Kent. Mars in the Movies: A History. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2016. ISBN 978-0-7864-9914-4.Sellers, Michael D. I (2012). John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood. Lexington, Kentucky: Universal Media. ISBN 978-0-615-68231-0. Archived from the originalon June 19, 2013.Sherman, Abraham (Autumn 2011). "John Carter of the Round Table: An Exploration of the Differences Between Edgar Rice Burroughs' Novel and Andrew Stanton's Film". ERBzine (4399). Retrieved June 16,...Official website archived at the Wayback MachineJohn Carter at IMDbJohn Carter: The Movie Novelization title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseJohn Carter at the TCM Movie Database- $284.1 million
- Michael Giacchino
- $306.6 million (gross), $263.7 million (net)
Mar 9, 2012 · Action Adventure Sci-Fi. Transported to Barsoom, a Civil War vet discovers a barren planet seemingly inhabited by 12-foot tall barbarians. Finding himself prisoner of these creatures, he escapes, only to encounter Woola and a princess in desperate need of a savior. Director. Andrew Stanton. Writers. Andrew Stanton. Mark Andrews. Michael Chabon.
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- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
- Andrew Stanton
- 2012-03-09
Oct 2, 2015 · The Martian: Directed by Ridley Scott. With Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels. An astronaut becomes stranded on Mars after his team assume him dead, and must rely on his ingenuity to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive and can survive until a potential rescue.
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- Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
- Ridley Scott
- 2015-10-02
Mar 9, 2012 · Rated: 4/10 • Dec 2, 2020. When Civil War veteran John Carter (Taylor Kitsch) mysteriously awakes on the surface of Mars -- also called Barsoom -- he little expects the adventure that awaits him.
Sep 30, 2015 · Much more disturbing is what is arguably the most important plot device in the movie: the massive windstorm that sweeps astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) away, causing his crew mates to abandon...
