<http://www.vulture.com/2012/03/john-carter-doomed-by-first-trailer.html>
[Andrew, writer and director of 'Finding Nemo' and 'Wall-E'] "Stanton (who also nixed all mentions of his Pixar work in the teaser for fear that people would think this film was for little kids) was working from the belief that John Carter was still as universally iconic a figure to people as Dracula, Luke Skywalker, or Tarzan. “It was my Harry Potter,” he said during an interview at Google last week that was streamed live on YouTube. “All I ever wanted when I read that book was to believe it.” He believed that audiences would gasp in delight at John Carter’s very appearance in much the same way that a Batman teaser might only need to flash the Bat Signal." Wow. I'll wager the only reason any significant number of people alive today (significant in terms of 'will spend enough money to go see a movie to recoup it's costs') know 'John Carter of Mars' at all, I wager, is entirely due to exposure to this book : <http://tinyurl.com/7zhbodo>, and the rest of the series. The article also reminded me just how lavishly George Lucas strode through literary history with a sickle, harvesting things... -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/stratalist-ot?hl=en.
