John Carter of Mars (redux?)

Witness The John Carter Film That Could Have Been

Here's a look at some poof of concept work from Paramount for a proposed John Carter movie that never was.

YouTube video

would you be interested in a reboot?

Still looks awful. Some books can't be translated because the visualisation of them is either too cheesy or ruins a part of the book that using your imagination enhanced.

With those visuals it looks just as much of and 80s B-movie as the first attempt and clearly it doesn't matter how much money you throw at it as a colossal budget didn't help the last attempt.

The first movie was alright.

Originally posted by Mindset
The first movie was alright.

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The problem was that it wasn't marketed well.
I thought it was a decent movie.

Make that 3 votes for the "it was decent" contingent.

It could be done well. But the director just hired bad actors with no chemistry and tried to turn John Carter into some anti-hero when he's not supposed to be. And yeah, it was a semi-decent movie if you haven't read the book. He just changed the character too much for my taste and added lame sci-fi cliches that didn't need to be there.

this like the crapshit of a first film goes right into the garbage bin

It was ok but I was still disappointed. That event said I like when these movies succeed because it greenlights more projects.

Originally posted by marwash22

would you be interested in a reboot?

Certainly! It's an interesting world and different takes would be cool.

I quite liked the movie we got, but I wouldn't mind someone else's attempt.