Comments on: Martian Yeti?

By: Alton Higgins

Alton Higgins — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:54:25 +0000

Yes, of course; sorry for the misstatement. The Mayan culture was what I meant.

By: semillama

semillama — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:42:31 +0000

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.

By: Alton Higgins

Alton Higgins — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:02:10 +0000

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.

By: graybear

graybear — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:39:08 +0000

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.

By: Alton Higgins

Alton Higgins — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:51:13 +0000

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

By: DavidFullam

DavidFullam — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:05:09 +0000

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?

By: graybear

graybear — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:53:31 +0000

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.

By: cryptidsrus

cryptidsrus — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:35:36 +0000

Coelacanth1938:

Veeery interesting. Hanks as Carter? Naaaahhhh!!!

Don’t think I want to see Julia Roberts topless either. My 2 cents.

By: coelacanth1938

coelacanth1938 — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:47:46 +0000

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.

By: DavidFullam

DavidFullam — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:58:18 +0000

“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.