![]() We said, “We’ll treat it this way, we won’t treat it like some fantasy being fulfilled by a fan.” We tried to make it feel like we’re going with the story of what really happened. I have to agree (and, truthfully, that’s the way a lot of pulp adventures read). He comments earlier that the first novel in the series reads like a movie serial, with cliffhanger after cliffhanger until you get to the end. But it made me feel very confident that we took it apart and put it back together and it held.īased on his record, I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. What was really fascinating: I finally let myself read the book after the script was green-lit and all of these things that, in my mind, I was starting to give myself credit for coming up with were in there. And from there just to look at what organically came together. And I thought the only way to get there honestly was to read the book, come up with a bunch of ideas and never look at the book again. I had every desire to make it feel on the screen like how it made me feel reading the book, and to me that’s the most important thing. ![]() If it had been a perfect piece of literature I would have been a little too intimidated to tweak it. What worries me more is what he says about the story: My Barsoom is less Grand Canyon and more flat, dusty red sand and rocks. I hope that carries over to a live-action John Carter.Ĭoncept art for Disney's "John Carter" movieThe two images posted on the blog paint an interesting picture of Stanton’s Barsoom. The director, Andrew Stanton, has an impressive record with Pixar. ![]() So I won’t repeat that here.īut I will say that I’m intrigued by what I see and read about the upcoming John Carter (no mention of Mars) movie over at Hero Complex, a blog on the Los Angeles Times website. I’ve written previous about how movies don’t often match what we imagine when we read a story. By this time, the new Ballatine books were sporting covers by Michael Whelan, which didn’t match the images in my mind’s eye. A few years later, I discoverd that the college bookstore had the rest of the books featuring D’Achille’s covers - so I naturally snapped them up. I had read the first couple of the John Carter books in high school, but hadn’t found the remaining books in the series. My visions of Edgar Rice Burrough‘s Barsoom are based on the art Gino D’Achille did for the 1970s Ballantine editions. ![]() “I can remember spending many an hour in my boyhood…imploring what I believed to be Mars to transport me there.Gino D'Achille's take on ERB's Barsoom for Ballantine Books. I journeyed with John Carter, gentleman adventurer from Virginia, to ‘Barsoom,’ as Mars was known to its inhabitants.” (“Cosmos,” 1980) “I can remember as a child reading with breathless fascination the Mars novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. aroused generations of eight-year-olds, myself among them, to consider the exploration of the planets as a real possibility.” (“Cosmos,” 1980) “The Mars novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs. I would have preferred 'BARSOOM,' but there was a strictly enforced limit of six letters per license plate." In 1973 he wrote: "The state of California was kind enough to give me an automobile license plate marked 'PHOBOS.' My car is not particularly sluggish, but it cannot circumnavigate our planet twice a day, either. The astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, and author was also a big Burroughs/Barsoom fan. On this date in 1996, Carl Sagan died at age 62.
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