Posted by: Loren Coleman on June 20th, 2008
In honor of ice being discovered on Mars, Henry Stokes has posted about the closest Martian equivalent to the Yeti he could find over at “I Love The Yeti.”
And there are even replicas.
For more, see Henry’s posting here.
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The creatures being portrayed by the models are the Great White Apes of Barsoom, from Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic John Carter of Mars series. Burroughs, as fewer and fewer know each year, was also the creator of Tarzan of the Apes. The models shown here are not consistent (as we should have guessed) with Burroughs’ detailed description of the Great White Apes. Surprisingly, Burroughs’ descriptions of the apes of Tarzan are very close to descriptions of our beloved Bigfoot.
“Kregaah, Tarmangani.”
“Burroughs, as fewer and fewer know each year, was also the creator of Tarzan of the Apes.”
And that is a shame. Burroughs knew how to do one thing, and do it very well. Make you keep reading until the very end.
Slightly O.T. here, when I was working at the Bellagio and they were filming “Ocean’s 11″, I had a chancer to chat up Julia Roberts and ask her about what happened to the John Carter of Mars movie that she was supposed to have done with Tom Hanks (Yeah, Tom Hanks as John Carter of Mars).
Apparently she was told at the very last minute that she was going to be topless for nearly the whole movie and then backed out.
Coelacanth1938:
Veeery interesting. Hanks as Carter? Naaaahhhh!!!
Don’t think I want to see Julia Roberts topless either. My 2 cents.
Coelacanth1938
I hadn’t heard about a Tom Hanks/Julia Roberts John Carter flick, although I did know one had been “in production” for several years. “In production” being Hollywood speak for ‘let’s see how badly we can screw this one up’ (see Superman Returns). Tom Hanks as John Carter and Julia Roberts as Dejah Thoris? THANK GOD that one never saw the light of day.
Thank you gentleman, I now know what HP Lovecraft meant when he spoke of “Unspeakable Horror.” If a Tom Hanks/Julia Roberts John Carter is not unspeakable horror, I don’t know what is.
BTW, didn’t someone try to get an animated version of the stories off the ground many years back?
I loved E.R. Burroughs in my youth. As per an article I saw today, Pixar’s Andrew Stanton is in charge of an adaptation of Burroughs’s “John Carter of Mars,” which will be an animated feature. It’s due in 2012, the typical four-year cycle for Pixar projects.
http://tinyurl.com/63k99t
Alton Higgins, thanks for the update on the new John Carter of Mars flick. There is even a chance that Pixar will do it right. Maybe not a good chance, but a chance. I’m hoping that we won’t get Monster’s Inc. goes to Mars or The Incredibles on Barsoom. Then again, the world is supposed to end in 2012, so maybe Hollywood will get this adaptation EXACTLY right. Then we’ll know to duck and cover.
You’re welcome graybear. I thought I saw somewhere that live action would be incorporated into the Pixar animation scheme for the John Carter of Mars movie, but don’t quote me on that.
As for 2012, if the Mayans were all that good at making predictions, I think they’d still be around.
The Mayans are still around, actually. They are the major group of indigenous people in the Yucatan Peninsula. The grand Mayan civilization may have collapsed, but the people didn’t go anywhere.
Yes, of course; sorry for the misstatement. The Mayan culture was what I meant.