@DArlauccualrADfan there are human Martians (technically red-skinned humanoids, but still) in the books. Both 'humans' and greenskins are divided in different factions which constantly fight each other. Guess it´s like a metaphor for the colonization of America, though as far as I read the red humans are also indigenous to the planet.
@sebylopez True, but while I have not read the books myself someone I've had it described to me that the red humans are still deifferent from ordinary humans, not just in their skin color.
The similarities continue with the Princess being referred to as “the daughter of a thousand jeddaks” while lurking in the shadows of the room is an accomplice of the hero waiting to assist. Later on, Carter is able to use the power of his mind to open doors and generally make things go his way, a skill refined by the Jedi over sixty years later.
George Lucas owes a particular debt to Burroughs; it seems highly unlikely that Lucas could have avoided Burroughs while researching Star Wars, he even “borrowed” some of the terminology. Where Lucas has Jedi and Padawan apprentices, Burroughs has Jeds and Padwar lieutenants. The extract below was written in 1912.
"At one end squatted the most hideous beast I had ever put eyes upon...his enormous bulk spread itself out upon the platform where he squatted like some huge devil fish. The Princess standing there before him, as he let his great protruding eyes gloat upon the lines of her beautiful figure. She stood there erect before him, her head held high, and even at that distance I could read the scorn and disgust upon her face as she let her haughty glance rest without sign of fear upon him.” Burroughs
I have read this series dozens of times over the past decades. My fear is that this will get the standard Hollywood treatment and so distort the story as to make it unrecognizable. The story is a classic, and nobody in Hollywood has the talent to write the story as Burroughs did.
@SuzyMac57 The principal is still the same. They take a great story and "improve" it to such a degree that the original story is unrecognizable. In this case, the Barsoom novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. The mind and talent that created John Carter and Tarzan odes not need help from the unimaginative and unoriginal writers of today.
@RufusTFirefly64 Stanton has been a huge fan of the Carter stories since he was a kid and wanted to take this on so that he could do justice to the story.He has vowed to keep the Burroughs story as is. People have been taking ideas from these for years. I for one am going to wait and see before I judge.
you know what i never get? why do the aliens speak ENGLISH?!?! In ALL movies involving humans going to space and interacting with creatures from there, they always know the english language!! WHY?!?!
at one point the trailer reminded me of 300. but other than that i have high hopes for this movie. it has potential to match harry potter, or narnia atleast.
@Lelia5150 Well said - People will never learn..Regardless of it being a Star Wars rip off in looks to a movie , I for one will still watch this. Like Source Fed says it looks more amazing then 90% of the shit out there in theatres right now.
I say give this movie a chance. It might look similar to Star Wars and Avatar, but these novels were written in the early 20th century. So if you say ah it looks like both movies you are pretty closed minded.
@tavorisbest CAPTAIN JOHN CARTER OF VIRGINIA, BITCHES, A CLEAN-LIMBED FIGHTING MAN. Kaor, y'all, go read the damn books. Which were written even before I was born which makes Avatar the derivative one. Sheesh.
It amazes me that most everyone under Sun doesn't know that John Carter was created a century ago by the same author who created Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs. From Avatar to Flash Gordon to Superman to Star Wars were all conceived by ideas from the John Carter series. I know that first book, A Princess of Mars, has been retitled to John Carter and the story changed to put it into a movie form. For what I have seen this movie can be great. I just hope it's successful cause the next book in the
@eileenandtom That would amaze me, too. Really, a lot of YouTubers are young and not well read thanks to cuts in education over the last 20 years. I am sorry they didn't call the film by the original title, a Princess of Mars. And from 1912, it's the 100th anniversary. Oh, and don't forget Buck Rogers!
When I was a kid, a long time ago, I loved the John Carter/Barsoom novels. Re-reading them as an adult, they were fairly juvenile. I hope the film version reflects a more grown-up mentality.
Until I learned about the movie, I never thought about John Carter's initials, so maybe the books were a little deeper than I thought. Anyway, it'll be great to see the Tharks and throats, Warhoons and Jedi and of course Deja Thoris, brought to life on the big screen.
I only hope that the sense of wondering and bewilderment from the books is conveyed in the movie, and they concentrate on John Carter as a man and warrior. And I would like to see him in the process of learning the language and customs of Barsom.
@qqpwpqi - read more of the books. She's "the incomparable Dejah Thoris" - LOL... AND @everyone else here: the first three books of this series are some of the best science fiction ever written - and done somewhere around 1915! Inspiration for generations of writers and screenwriters - once you've read them, you'll see their influence everywhere - :)
Can't wait for this movie. Read A Princess of Mars when I was in high school in the mid-90's when it was suggested to me by my uncle. Never got around to reading any of the other books in the series, though. Finally picked up an anthology collection of the first 7 novels and started rereading A Princess of Mars this week.
My very first thought about that movie, is that I found the gap between its title "John Carter" and its visuals very disconcerting... I guess Disney would have named it elseway if they had the full rights !
gawd.. superman went to earth and everything was like stuffings for him. john carter went to mars and he gets cool abilities and stuff. i wish i was on a planet made off squishy stuff too. :< cotten candy perhaps 8D
I can't believe that it took film makers so long to create this movie! I read the first 5 books when I was about 6 (30 yrs ago) Any of you naysayers talking about some FALSE comparison betweeen Avatar, Braveheart or some other movie, need to read the series & you will find that John Carter and the events (blue blood on face giving speech) therein have been in the books since the begining - 100 YEARS AGO! I am stoked about this flick and intend to be there opening night!
Yes but the character design, fight scenes, and warfare are similar to its rival movies, star wars and the Avatar. However, everyone including myself would love to see and enjoy it.
@THEDARKKNlGHT1939 hi. nah i disagree.. i think what people are responding to is the execution of it.. looks just like ILM stamped all over it. regardless of the origins etc
@THEDARKKNlGHT1939 Stop blabbing about novels and such. John Carter( the movie) is the product Star Wars+Avatar, at least aesthetically. Yes, the book may not be a rip-off, but the adaptation most certainly is. Having said that, I will most definitely be watching this movie
@MrAcademedical Tell me how you can make a good movie adaptation about a book if you dont include things that make it what it is.. What i mean is star wars and avatar copied the john carter novels if any copying is going on..
Is it supposed to be tongue-in-cheek that he's giving the now-cliched inspiring speech while covered in the blue blood of the white ape? Everyone has been ripping off Braveheart for 15 years now, but this is the closest I've seen it echoed (parodied?) in a non-comedy.
Best Books of my youth--- John Carters Adventures..:) I am so happy, that i can go to movie for one of my best HERO!!:) I hope director is same fan like me and my friends.. Each of us read the John Carter books, for each of us are John Carter best hero of all time!!!!!!!! :) Edgar Rice Burroughs 4 Ever king of adventures..:)
Frankly, I am really tired of all these computer animated movies they're all the same. The same animations, the same characters reused over and over again. Lord of the rings, and Star Wars were fun to watch because they represented some achievement and a novelty. These days all these films are all the same.
I am happy that with todays special effects technology that many of the books that I have read in the 1960's and '70's have been made into major motion pictures! I am praying that this particular one does well enough to merit additional sequels in the John Carter series as it has been a favorite of mine and to finally have the opportunity to see this presented on the motion picture screen is a dream come true. I just hope that the movie itself does the book "justice" as much as possible.
@stephenn726 They look nothing like jar jar binks, and act nothing like Jar Jar binks, therefore your comment (some sort of deranged attempt at cleverness) is completely invalid
bah, comparing it to Avatar just shows how you missed out on the series. I'd suggest go read it, it's dated now, but still great. Avatar's Pandora is a poor shadow of what was Barsoom and it's people
@LegalizeTheDope I doubt this movie would exist if it weren't for the success of Avatar. People have been trying to make this since the 1970s. Avatar is exactly in that same vein, just as Star Wars was like Flash Gordon and Raiders of the Lost Ark was reminiscent of the cliffhanger adventure serials.
One of my absolute favorite reads as a kid, had all the books. I was stunned to hear (late) that it was being made into a movie. I WILL be there to see the premiere!
Cant wait for it. Edgar Rice Burroughs has got justice only once in Hollywood, & that was 1986's "Greystoke:The Legend of Tarzan".
You can sure tell that George Lucas ripped off Burroughs in a huge way in his ridiculas "Attack of the Clones". James Cameron did also with Avatar's six legged creatures, as well as Marvels huge hit, "Planet Hulk" story line a few years ago. That was a blatent rip off of Burroughs.
Planet Hulk Writer Greg Pak should be ashamed of himself.
It never ceases to amaze me the grandiose of the white man's over inflated ego. The story line is always the same "one white man goes to another world and saves the day, the whole world, the whole race and gets the girl." The white man's burden wins again.
@stliu813 There are heroes of every race in film these days, but every time a white man is a hero people make a big deal about it.
Look, John Carter is a character from a book written 100 years ago, and do you know what his occupation was before becoming a warlord of mars, he was a confederate soldier.
there were black or asian confederate soldiers, grow up and just let John Carter be a hero!
@dredned If you actually understood the concept of evolution, you would realize that your statement is completely contradictory. There can never be an apex to evolution, because it is always EVOLVING
Only clone here is Avatar.millons spent on a crappy,hollow re treaded story.A pretty watch though.I agree...pick up the Burroughs stuff..way ahead of its time.Hope the WATER on Mars is going to be the biggest discrepency tho...still dont trust Hollywood with classic stories......
@REDKOMET1 There was water on mars! There was a vast network of canals filled with it, not to mention the "river iss" which is what you are seeing here, and the omean sea, and the lost sea of korus, and the toonoolian marshes, the great salt marsh, and the lakes in the kamtol rift
ERB's barsoom is a world of vastly varied ecosystems, just because barren wastes is the primary one doesnt mean its the only one
It never ceases to amaze me at the number of idiots that lurk on the web. This awesome story was written 100 years ago and from what I see in the trailer, it is pretty close to the original idea of the books. Maybe you Avatar retards should pickup a book for once in your pathetic lives and do some reading.
LOng have i awaited this movie. I must admit the trailer seems to show the 1st 2 books but I still look forward to it. If it does it justice I hope Disney and the director, Andrew Stanton, continue to do the others about Barsoom.
John Carter is released in UK & US cinemas on 9 March 2012.
@lordofchaosrb He explains in this video that it is based on a book, that book was written before star wars and avatar, and before the history of gladiator and 300 entered the public eye
the book just turned 100 this year for heavens sake!
I have started reading the series and I can not wait ti see Sola, one of the green martians. The fact that they chose Samantha Morton to do her voice is so much better.
These books were so far ahead of their time I am still not sure movie CGI can capture the stories as they played out in my head. Must be a fan of ERB somewhere in Zepplin but it is the perfect music. I hope it permeates the movie and not just the trailer! Not sure I like the lead role but I'll have to wait and see. Already he wakes up on Mars for the first time fully clothed? The book was explicit that this did not happen. If this movie fails to follow the book it will flop but hope not!
@Xphyz If they wanted an "R" rating they probably would have included that scene,but they want the maximum return for money invested so they had to make PG/ PG-13
@STSWB5SG1FAN I don't want to see a closeup naked. Fact is they could show waste up and thigh down for effect and then longer distance shots with the mars background. The naked is also part of the psychology where you are defensless as if reborn on an unknown world. To be clothed really does take a lot of that feeling out of the initial discription of his journey.
I'm hoping you can sequel right through to Llana of Gathol. I'm sure this movie will be a big hit, many of our generation (baby boomers) read these books as children. John Carter was the Harry Potter of our time, and I hope Disney doesn't force it's political propaganda onto the director.
Please, Please stick to the book, can't believe how bad Hollywood destroyed Tarzan another E.R Burroughs book, please, can't wait for "Chessmen of Mars" from the J carter series
I loved the books and hope they will stick closely to the originals. I also hope the movie will get a good reception at the cinemas, so the entire trilogy will be filmed.
@StarlightTwins FWIW, the original version of Kashmir is by Led Zeppelin. I was waiting for Robert Plant's voice to kick in, but Bond did a nice version of it (gotta check 'em out now). It matched the visuals rather nicely, if I may say so, and I really hope that the trailer is not deceiving of the film overall. I ate up those books in my younger years, and I like what I see so far.
In the books, John Carter arrives on Mars before the planet loses its atmosphere (I know it has been said- but please at least read Wikipedia on it). The planet is dying, and the groups are fighting over the dwindling resources. A cautionary tale written 100 years ago.
This movie is gonna be awesome, but I think it's gonna suffer the earthbound effect. A very good product which many people don't know about
superstrok99 2 hours ago
If he wanted to do the original justice, why are the Martians humans?
DArlauccualrADfan 4 hours ago
@DArlauccualrADfan there are human Martians (technically red-skinned humanoids, but still) in the books. Both 'humans' and greenskins are divided in different factions which constantly fight each other. Guess it´s like a metaphor for the colonization of America, though as far as I read the red humans are also indigenous to the planet.
sebylopez 31 minutes ago
@sebylopez True, but while I have not read the books myself someone I've had it described to me that the red humans are still deifferent from ordinary humans, not just in their skin color.
DArlauccualrADfan 28 minutes ago
I feel like Avatar ripped of Dances with Wolves.
claing17 5 hours ago
From the writer who created Tarzan, and the company that animated Tarzan, comes this new movie: TARZAN IN SPAAAAAACE!
G0lfYankee 7 hours ago 2
gr8 vfx
9916294750 8 hours ago
This movie I must see!!!
napalmdad 9 hours ago
The similarities continue with the Princess being referred to as “the daughter of a thousand jeddaks” while lurking in the shadows of the room is an accomplice of the hero waiting to assist. Later on, Carter is able to use the power of his mind to open doors and generally make things go his way, a skill refined by the Jedi over sixty years later.
Apogeebooks 17 hours ago
George Lucas owes a particular debt to Burroughs; it seems highly unlikely that Lucas could have avoided Burroughs while researching Star Wars, he even “borrowed” some of the terminology. Where Lucas has Jedi and Padawan apprentices, Burroughs has Jeds and Padwar lieutenants. The extract below was written in 1912.
Apogeebooks 17 hours ago
"At one end squatted the most hideous beast I had ever put eyes upon...his enormous bulk spread itself out upon the platform where he squatted like some huge devil fish. The Princess standing there before him, as he let his great protruding eyes gloat upon the lines of her beautiful figure. She stood there erect before him, her head held high, and even at that distance I could read the scorn and disgust upon her face as she let her haughty glance rest without sign of fear upon him.” Burroughs
Apogeebooks 17 hours ago
I have read this series dozens of times over the past decades. My fear is that this will get the standard Hollywood treatment and so distort the story as to make it unrecognizable. The story is a classic, and nobody in Hollywood has the talent to write the story as Burroughs did.
RufusTFirefly64 17 hours ago
@RufusTFirefly64 Stanton is from Pixar - in Emeryville, Bay Area - Not Hollywood
SuzyMac57 15 hours ago
@SuzyMac57 The principal is still the same. They take a great story and "improve" it to such a degree that the original story is unrecognizable. In this case, the Barsoom novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. The mind and talent that created John Carter and Tarzan odes not need help from the unimaginative and unoriginal writers of today.
RufusTFirefly64 5 hours ago
@RufusTFirefly64 Stanton has been a huge fan of the Carter stories since he was a kid and wanted to take this on so that he could do justice to the story.He has vowed to keep the Burroughs story as is. People have been taking ideas from these for years. I for one am going to wait and see before I judge.
SuzyMac57 3 hours ago
BARSOOM!!!!!! if it ain't a hundred years old, it's a derivative of THIS
1montino1 20 hours ago
Holy crap. Did you people really just blatantly steal the concept art of David Burton for this movie? You thieving bastards
tarogue1 20 hours ago
you know what i never get? why do the aliens speak ENGLISH?!?! In ALL movies involving humans going to space and interacting with creatures from there, they always know the english language!! WHY?!?!
FlurpzZ 20 hours ago
@FlurpzZ Because most people won't sit through 2 hours of subtitles.
Mistofknowledge 20 hours ago
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@FlurpzZ because we can't speak alien or would you prefer to read subtitles for 2 hours
PersianSKA 19 hours ago
@FlurpzZ Uh, so we can understand it.....
SuzyMac57 15 hours ago
Kashmir in the trailer? Im sold!
jessegault777 21 hours ago
at one point the trailer reminded me of 300. but other than that i have high hopes for this movie. it has potential to match harry potter, or narnia atleast.
RyeRyeBear 21 hours ago
To who ever can awnser my question why is she so strong and can jump so high??
deyvid75104 21 hours ago
Yeah definitely not an avatar/star wars rip of, the first book of this series was written in 1912. that's 100 years, if you're a dumbfuck
louisuniverse 21 hours ago
Awesome !!
greattvshows452 23 hours ago
I read Bryan Cranston and Dominic West are in this, saw Dominic at the very end of the trailer but do they only have minor roles?
GreenyFool 1 day ago
tenían que elegir otro planeta por que marte esta mas retirado del del y eso lo hace ser frio. seria como firmar una película en unos de los polos
tito8099354856 1 day ago
avatar suck. it's too perfect so it sucks hard.
chunlin05 1 day ago
This book is 100 years old. Anyone saying it's a Star Wars/Avatar rip-off has no idea what they are talking about.
Lelia5150 1 day ago 18
@Lelia5150 Well said - People will never learn..Regardless of it being a Star Wars rip off in looks to a movie , I for one will still watch this. Like Source Fed says it looks more amazing then 90% of the shit out there in theatres right now.
TBaggingSince1990 4 hours ago
please don't mess this up.
AzzzraeL 1 day ago
If compared to cover of the book Gods of Mars the flying vessels seem free form interpretation.
konked 1 day ago
This movie going to be awesome :).
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I say give this movie a chance. It might look similar to Star Wars and Avatar, but these novels were written in the early 20th century. So if you say ah it looks like both movies you are pretty closed minded.
syntar1323 2 days ago
WHY DOES HE HAVE AN AMERICAN ACCENT??? WHY CAN'T THEY BE MORE ORIGINAL??? HOW ABOUT A SOUTH AFRICAN GUY???
tavorisbest 2 days ago
@tavorisbest John Carter is a American.In the books he was a civil war vet.
KobraCody 2 days ago
@tavorisbest CAPTAIN JOHN CARTER OF VIRGINIA, BITCHES, A CLEAN-LIMBED FIGHTING MAN. Kaor, y'all, go read the damn books. Which were written even before I was born which makes Avatar the derivative one. Sheesh.
Mrshamill 1 day ago
@tavorisbest Necause it woulb be less original.... go read the book
JSolls 1 day ago
@tavorisbest Because in the book he's from Virginia
SuzyMac57 15 hours ago
from 2:06 - 2:09
it's like a voice in 300
wielderXII 2 days ago
@wielderXII Haven't checked but lot of Led Zeppelin's Kashmir in it.
konked 1 day ago
You look ugly but you are beautiful ?! Sweet !!!!
truongquoctuan9 2 days ago
Applause to the trailer! Can't wait! Yeah BUDDY!!!!
ddreamberry2 2 days ago
It amazes me that most everyone under Sun doesn't know that John Carter was created a century ago by the same author who created Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs. From Avatar to Flash Gordon to Superman to Star Wars were all conceived by ideas from the John Carter series. I know that first book, A Princess of Mars, has been retitled to John Carter and the story changed to put it into a movie form. For what I have seen this movie can be great. I just hope it's successful cause the next book in the
eileenandtom 3 days ago
@eileenandtom That would amaze me, too. Really, a lot of YouTubers are young and not well read thanks to cuts in education over the last 20 years. I am sorry they didn't call the film by the original title, a Princess of Mars. And from 1912, it's the 100th anniversary. Oh, and don't forget Buck Rogers!
scotman55 2 days ago
dont fucking mess with led zeppelin man
tinurieaa 3 days ago
that chick is so ridiculously gorgeous...
RenegadeArms09 3 days ago
Avatar and Starwars is a ripoff from The Novels of this movie
LinusMagnusson 4 days ago
When I was a kid, a long time ago, I loved the John Carter/Barsoom novels. Re-reading them as an adult, they were fairly juvenile. I hope the film version reflects a more grown-up mentality.
Until I learned about the movie, I never thought about John Carter's initials, so maybe the books were a little deeper than I thought. Anyway, it'll be great to see the Tharks and throats, Warhoons and Jedi and of course Deja Thoris, brought to life on the big screen.
davewyman 4 days ago
@davewyman and Woola! lol
RuFFNuTTProductionz 3 days ago
Who the fuck dared to make a Kashmir remix?! Who dared? Show me your face motherfucker! I'll beat you in the name of Zeppelin and the name of rock!
Chichopuente 4 days ago
@Chichopuente Jimmy Page let them make it.
ThePhazon 2 days ago
I always imagined the green men to be bigger...
D3ADR1GHT 4 days ago
STOP TALKING SHOW ME THE GODDAM TRAILER!
Abdullu 4 days ago
It kinda reminds me of He-Man...I think its just the leather belts.
FighterAmy 4 days ago
Can any1 tell me what is the music in the background ? it is awesome
marto654 5 days ago
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@marto654 The guitar rift is from "Kashmir" by Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page, guitarist).
TheDugabug 4 days ago
This most anything implies "AVATAR"
nevermind liked it (;
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TheDugabug 4 days ago
Why do I feel like John Carter needs a British Accent
Toshibasan 6 days ago 4
I only hope that the sense of wondering and bewilderment from the books is conveyed in the movie, and they concentrate on John Carter as a man and warrior. And I would like to see him in the process of learning the language and customs of Barsom.
3467262649 6 days ago
@qqpwpqi - read more of the books. She's "the incomparable Dejah Thoris" - LOL... AND @everyone else here: the first three books of this series are some of the best science fiction ever written - and done somewhere around 1915! Inspiration for generations of writers and screenwriters - once you've read them, you'll see their influence everywhere - :)
janielaurel 6 days ago 2
I saw the previews in 3D at the theater, this movie is going to be sick!
Heatmaker79 6 days ago
Can't wait for this movie. Read A Princess of Mars when I was in high school in the mid-90's when it was suggested to me by my uncle. Never got around to reading any of the other books in the series, though. Finally picked up an anthology collection of the first 7 novels and started rereading A Princess of Mars this week.
Nickflair04 1 week ago
My very first thought about that movie, is that I found the gap between its title "John Carter" and its visuals very disconcerting... I guess Disney would have named it elseway if they had the full rights !
WAMEDJO 1 week ago
gawd.. superman went to earth and everything was like stuffings for him. john carter went to mars and he gets cool abilities and stuff. i wish i was on a planet made off squishy stuff too. :< cotten candy perhaps 8D
RyuMSEA 1 week ago
To all the people saying this copied Star Wars and Avatar
The John Carter novels came out WAY BEFORE those movies were even an idea.
THEDARKKNlGHT1939 1 week ago 70
@THEDARKKNlGHT1939
I can't believe that it took film makers so long to create this movie! I read the first 5 books when I was about 6 (30 yrs ago) Any of you naysayers talking about some FALSE comparison betweeen Avatar, Braveheart or some other movie, need to read the series & you will find that John Carter and the events (blue blood on face giving speech) therein have been in the books since the begining - 100 YEARS AGO! I am stoked about this flick and intend to be there opening night!
HIGEAR100 6 days ago 2
@THEDARKKNlGHT1939 Star Wars? Avatar? Non, more like Tarzan in outer space.
Xentradi97 4 days ago
@THEDARKKNlGHT1939 1912 to be exact .the movie is a 100 anniversary thing
abraman12 3 days ago
@THEDARKKNlGHT1939
Yes but the character design, fight scenes, and warfare are similar to its rival movies, star wars and the Avatar. However, everyone including myself would love to see and enjoy it.
STiDriv3r 2 days ago
@THEDARKKNlGHT1939 hi. nah i disagree.. i think what people are responding to is the execution of it.. looks just like ILM stamped all over it. regardless of the origins etc
phildog23 18 hours ago
@phildog23 (even if its not ILM... but you get what i mean)
phildog23 18 hours ago
@THEDARKKNlGHT1939 Stop blabbing about novels and such. John Carter( the movie) is the product Star Wars+Avatar, at least aesthetically. Yes, the book may not be a rip-off, but the adaptation most certainly is. Having said that, I will most definitely be watching this movie
MrAcademedical 12 hours ago
@MrAcademedical Tell me how you can make a good movie adaptation about a book if you dont include things that make it what it is.. What i mean is star wars and avatar copied the john carter novels if any copying is going on..
Millbro82 8 hours ago
@MrAcademedical The movie is almost identical to the book, therefore its not a rip off...
THEDARKKNlGHT1939 5 hours ago
Is it supposed to be tongue-in-cheek that he's giving the now-cliched inspiring speech while covered in the blue blood of the white ape? Everyone has been ripping off Braveheart for 15 years now, but this is the closest I've seen it echoed (parodied?) in a non-comedy.
Fabulist 1 week ago
Best Books of my youth--- John Carters Adventures..:) I am so happy, that i can go to movie for one of my best HERO!!:) I hope director is same fan like me and my friends.. Each of us read the John Carter books, for each of us are John Carter best hero of all time!!!!!!!! :) Edgar Rice Burroughs 4 Ever king of adventures..:)
11martincerny11 1 week ago 4
Frankly, I am really tired of all these computer animated movies they're all the same. The same animations, the same characters reused over and over again. Lord of the rings, and Star Wars were fun to watch because they represented some achievement and a novelty. These days all these films are all the same.
marlasota 1 week ago
I am happy Disney is doing movies for adult people.
nehomar2005 1 week ago 2
This won't be anything like the book.
FatPeopleism 1 week ago
@FatPeopleism Well sure. The white apes are Rancor-sized. Tars Tarkas sounds -- and looks -- like the Green Goblin. Plus people are wearing clothes.
Fabulist 1 week ago
lol he pointed at the 401 videos button
thatfatguyeatingapie 1 week ago
hell yeh
tank95ww 1 week ago
i bet they fuck this up
ajax201000 1 week ago
John Carter + muppets =[
smorkey123 1 week ago
Having first read these books in the late 70s I am very excited about the release of this movie. Thank you so much for making it!
barrybz 1 week ago
I am happy that with todays special effects technology that many of the books that I have read in the 1960's and '70's have been made into major motion pictures! I am praying that this particular one does well enough to merit additional sequels in the John Carter series as it has been a favorite of mine and to finally have the opportunity to see this presented on the motion picture screen is a dream come true. I just hope that the movie itself does the book "justice" as much as possible.
comicbookal 1 week ago
omg it's Mark Strong at 1:42
demondragon28 1 week ago
Jar Jar Binks got another job!
stephenn726 1 week ago
@stephenn726 They look nothing like jar jar binks, and act nothing like Jar Jar binks, therefore your comment (some sort of deranged attempt at cleverness) is completely invalid
Ralokone 1 week ago
@stephenn726 You, are a dumbass
Lecruidant 1 week ago
bah, comparing it to Avatar just shows how you missed out on the series. I'd suggest go read it, it's dated now, but still great. Avatar's Pandora is a poor shadow of what was Barsoom and it's people
LegalizeTheDope 1 week ago 17
@LegalizeTheDope I doubt this movie would exist if it weren't for the success of Avatar. People have been trying to make this since the 1970s. Avatar is exactly in that same vein, just as Star Wars was like Flash Gordon and Raiders of the Lost Ark was reminiscent of the cliffhanger adventure serials.
Fabulist 1 week ago
One of my absolute favorite reads as a kid, had all the books. I was stunned to hear (late) that it was being made into a movie. I WILL be there to see the premiere!
LegalizeTheDope 1 week ago
So I just got through, A Princess Of Mars, but something tells me they're going to be drawing from later books as well
Curttehmurt 1 week ago
haha... you are ugly... but you are beautiful... 1:52... hahaha
EnriquezP3 1 week ago in playlist John Carter
Looks like it has as much to do with the original book as Starship Troopers had with it's original book.
Too Bad...
SupermaxCNC 1 week ago
avatar + star wars
senadjrs 2 weeks ago
wow looks brim full of awesomness!
MrI3yter 2 weeks ago
andrew stanton?? Im on board
DeJay14 2 weeks ago
love this song
777Jarhead1 2 weeks ago
I'm reading the book right now. If the movie is even half is good it should be awesome! I plan to go see it. Oh, and I love the song they play :)
shannonlovesbaking 2 weeks ago
He can jump Really Really high lol
HawkerWill 2 weeks ago
@HawkerWill Mars gravity is only 1/3rd of Earth.....
11B30Inf 2 weeks ago
Led Zepplin!
Lurkinginspace 2 weeks ago
intresting.... looks like a Avatar wannabee but im def gonna watch this...
vedi1900 2 weeks ago
@vedi1900 This is based on "A Princess of Mars" published in 1912, james cameron has mentioned John Carter as an influence more than one.
Ralokone 2 weeks ago
@vedi1900 Well seeing how Avatar was inspired by John Carter, how is this movie an Avatar wannabe?
MGSROCKS1 1 week ago
Dotar Sojat!!!!!
cranberry6pointOh 2 weeks ago
jajaja when he said "click here to subscribe" he pointed at the amount of videos xD
mOOseoftheNorth 2 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
Cant wait for it. Edgar Rice Burroughs has got justice only once in Hollywood, & that was 1986's "Greystoke:The Legend of Tarzan".
You can sure tell that George Lucas ripped off Burroughs in a huge way in his ridiculas "Attack of the Clones". James Cameron did also with Avatar's six legged creatures, as well as Marvels huge hit, "Planet Hulk" story line a few years ago. That was a blatent rip off of Burroughs.
Planet Hulk Writer Greg Pak should be ashamed of himself.
conan0869 2 weeks ago
I want a Woola plush!!!!!
patsylvan 2 weeks ago
What the fuck are you guys talking about egg
Oldguywithcandy101 2 weeks ago
Wow. I'm very, very interested to see if they pull this off.
telemarkaeology 2 weeks ago
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0:32 that's not the subscribe button liar
yezidi11 2 weeks ago
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yezidi11 2 weeks ago
0:43 ..mmh planet looks like in Star Wars 2
0:49 ..kinda seen those creatures in Star Wars 2..
1:51 ..Star Wars gun!
who cares, she's hot.
OlstiMusic 2 weeks ago
como se llama el sountrack de este trailer
oscar92rock 3 weeks ago
Whats the song?
Flutok 3 weeks ago
@Flutok
Kashmir (Led Zepplin Orchestra Cover)
A13pro 3 weeks ago
@Flutok kashmir - led zeppelin
AndyR0b 2 weeks ago 5
Yeah,their egg should be at the end.Did they have water on mars before the second book?thought it was spoken about like ancient history?
REDKOMET1 3 weeks ago
Will Dejah Thoris and John Carter have an egg before the end?
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qqpwpqi 3 weeks ago
It never ceases to amaze me the grandiose of the white man's over inflated ego. The story line is always the same "one white man goes to another world and saves the day, the whole world, the whole race and gets the girl." The white man's burden wins again.
stliu813 3 weeks ago
@stliu813 There are heroes of every race in film these days, but every time a white man is a hero people make a big deal about it.
Look, John Carter is a character from a book written 100 years ago, and do you know what his occupation was before becoming a warlord of mars, he was a confederate soldier.
there were black or asian confederate soldiers, grow up and just let John Carter be a hero!
Ralokone 3 weeks ago
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redskybeach 2 weeks ago
@stliu813 The White man is the apex of human evolution. Deal with it.
dredned 1 day ago
@dredned If you actually understood the concept of evolution, you would realize that your statement is completely contradictory. There can never be an apex to evolution, because it is always EVOLVING
camerongct 20 hours ago
damn i wanna see this :D
cr3am3dCAK3 3 weeks ago
Only clone here is Avatar.millons spent on a crappy,hollow re treaded story.A pretty watch though.I agree...pick up the Burroughs stuff..way ahead of its time.Hope the WATER on Mars is going to be the biggest discrepency tho...still dont trust Hollywood with classic stories......
REDKOMET1 3 weeks ago
@REDKOMET1 There was water on mars! There was a vast network of canals filled with it, not to mention the "river iss" which is what you are seeing here, and the omean sea, and the lost sea of korus, and the toonoolian marshes, the great salt marsh, and the lakes in the kamtol rift
ERB's barsoom is a world of vastly varied ecosystems, just because barren wastes is the primary one doesnt mean its the only one
Ralokone 3 weeks ago
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@EXACTLYdotCOM they have it at premiummoviesworld[dot]com , click on the more button, it will be in the 5th row, have fun!
MrSenseiDeath 3 weeks ago 12
I love this kind of movies but the plot better be good ... don't want some crappy sci-fi story ...
kuzcoxtopia 3 weeks ago
It never ceases to amaze me at the number of idiots that lurk on the web. This awesome story was written 100 years ago and from what I see in the trailer, it is pretty close to the original idea of the books. Maybe you Avatar retards should pickup a book for once in your pathetic lives and do some reading.
nptmeyer 3 weeks ago
LOng have i awaited this movie. I must admit the trailer seems to show the 1st 2 books but I still look forward to it. If it does it justice I hope Disney and the director, Andrew Stanton, continue to do the others about Barsoom.
John Carter is released in UK & US cinemas on 9 March 2012.
patsylvan 3 weeks ago
please don't tell me they did a blue war-paint highlander battle-speech.
Urudrim 3 weeks ago
Avatar clone in so many ways...
batmansillo 3 weeks ago
@batmansillo Shut up retard, this is based on a book written 100 years ago this month! dont call it a clone.
Ralokone 3 weeks ago
@batmansillo avatar was the clone. burroughs wrote this story a hundred years ago.
Urudrim 3 weeks ago
To me it looks friggen EPIC!
JtoTheK1000 3 weeks ago
Gladiator, star wars, avatar and 300 all rolled up in one >.>
lordofchaosrb 3 weeks ago 2
@lordofchaosrb this is based on a book written in february 1912
Ralokone 3 weeks ago
@lordofchaosrb He explains in this video that it is based on a book, that book was written before star wars and avatar, and before the history of gladiator and 300 entered the public eye
the book just turned 100 this year for heavens sake!
Ralokone 3 weeks ago
hey look its avatar 2 lol
Darkseeker109 3 weeks ago
That scene with the colloseum type place, with John tied up to the chains reminds me of Star Wars: Attack Of The Clones.
InAWorldOfLies 3 weeks ago
I have started reading the series and I can not wait ti see Sola, one of the green martians. The fact that they chose Samantha Morton to do her voice is so much better.
kosmos007 3 weeks ago
FINALLY, a Disney movie worth watching! 2012 must really be the end of the world
Quiselott 3 weeks ago
These books were so far ahead of their time I am still not sure movie CGI can capture the stories as they played out in my head. Must be a fan of ERB somewhere in Zepplin but it is the perfect music. I hope it permeates the movie and not just the trailer! Not sure I like the lead role but I'll have to wait and see. Already he wakes up on Mars for the first time fully clothed? The book was explicit that this did not happen. If this movie fails to follow the book it will flop but hope not!
Xphyz 3 weeks ago
@Xphyz The whole "arriving on mars" thing has been changed
I do like this change for two very specific reasons though
Ralokone 3 weeks ago
@Xphyz If they wanted an "R" rating they probably would have included that scene,but they want the maximum return for money invested so they had to make PG/ PG-13
STSWB5SG1FAN 2 weeks ago
@STSWB5SG1FAN I don't want to see a closeup naked. Fact is they could show waste up and thigh down for effect and then longer distance shots with the mars background. The naked is also part of the psychology where you are defensless as if reborn on an unknown world. To be clothed really does take a lot of that feeling out of the initial discription of his journey.
nclmchuck 2 weeks ago
I'm hoping you can sequel right through to Llana of Gathol. I'm sure this movie will be a big hit, many of our generation (baby boomers) read these books as children. John Carter was the Harry Potter of our time, and I hope Disney doesn't force it's political propaganda onto the director.
ladamyre1 3 weeks ago
I waited 128 years to see this........don't screw it up.......however the trailer looks right.
6011slag 3 weeks ago
@6011slag 128 years? fancy trick for a movie based on a book that turned 100 this month
Ralokone 3 weeks ago
I'm seeing this movie because whoever thought of putting Kashmir in the trailer deserves my respect
redaleftah 4 weeks ago
it's sooooooooo fantastic ....john Carter and so many movie in 2012 R deadly 4 human,it's not real 2012 is end of world.....it's starting ..
pawan1349 4 weeks ago
Please, Please stick to the book, can't believe how bad Hollywood destroyed Tarzan another E.R Burroughs book, please, can't wait for "Chessmen of Mars" from the J carter series
mrmartin123 1 month ago
Please does anybody know the song which plays in 1:08 - 1:29?
radar550 1 month ago
Great visuals, very promising.
I loved the books and hope they will stick closely to the originals. I also hope the movie will get a good reception at the cinemas, so the entire trilogy will be filmed.
Good job so far. :-)
Greeting from Germany
MrTryAnotherOne 1 month ago
WOOLA! WOOLA'S IN THIS MOVIE! AWESOME! Looks like it encompasses the first two John Carter books.... should be pretty cool. Can't wait to see it.
TheVaultMaster 1 month ago
wheres Godzilla?
TheMrArtie 1 month ago
The song is Kashmir by Bond. It's a group of girls that play string instruments.
StarlightTwins 1 month ago
@StarlightTwins FWIW, the original version of Kashmir is by Led Zeppelin. I was waiting for Robert Plant's voice to kick in, but Bond did a nice version of it (gotta check 'em out now). It matched the visuals rather nicely, if I may say so, and I really hope that the trailer is not deceiving of the film overall. I ate up those books in my younger years, and I like what I see so far.
kus42 3 weeks ago
I've been waiting to hear "My chieftain" for years. Hopefully the characterizations will match the level of special effects.
mandtbob 1 month ago
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In the books, John Carter arrives on Mars before the planet loses its atmosphere (I know it has been said- but please at least read Wikipedia on it). The planet is dying, and the groups are fighting over the dwindling resources. A cautionary tale written 100 years ago.
WowmobileOrlando 1 month ago
Looks like seen before, but ...must-see-carter-anyway...
Fahnder99 1 month ago