Have we moved a step closer to a John Carter of Mars movie?
John Hill Media, a blog about the entertainment industry, and the Walt Disney Co., in particular, has a recent post detailing how Disney’s Pixar Animation Studios has acquired numerous Web domain names related to John Carter.
Now, registering domain names for a movie is exciting. But remember in 1999 and again in 2002, Warner Bros. reserved several domain names related to Doc Savage. Nine years later, are we closer to a new Doc Savage movie?
The promising news in the John Hill blog comes farther down the article. The blog suggests that Pixar’s plans may include a live-action John Carter movie trilogy, not just a single picture. It goes on to say that the first draft of the first film’s script has been written and that there is a window in Disney’s release calendar for a blockbuster in 2011.
Edgar Rice Burrough’s John Carter series was one of the first pulp series that I read as a teenager. The paperbacks were the Ballantine Books’ versions with the terrific Gino D’Achille covers. Ever since reading those, I’ve thought that John Carter would make a great movie.
If Pixar can replicate the script quality of its animated The Incredibles with a serious adventure version of John Carter, pulp fans should be overjoyed. I know I would be.
– William
Oh, how I hope Disney won’t neuter the series too much. After all, they’re full of bloody battles and lots of exposed flesh… not the types of content that pops into mind when one thinks “Disney”. Sure, they can capture that sense of wonder, but really… this is pretty adult stuff. Only time will tell.