Comments on: John Carter! John Carter! John Carter! http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/02/10/john-carter-john-carter-john-carter/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Sat, 06 Sep 2008 16:27:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Sphinx Magoo http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/02/10/john-carter-john-carter-john-carter/#comment-57625 Sat, 10 Feb 2007 21:08:58 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/02/10/john-carter-john-carter-john-carter/#comment-57625 I wonder if the still-unreleased "Beowulf" movie is just stunning everyone into moving forward with this project. This sounds pretty exciting. This John Carter project might be seen by Disney/Pixar as a way of making a CGI movie (or series) which appeals to an older demographic and is less of an all-ages film. I wonder if the still-unreleased “Beowulf” movie is just stunning everyone into moving forward with this project. This sounds pretty exciting. This John Carter project might be seen by Disney/Pixar as a way of making a CGI movie (or series) which appeals to an older demographic and is less of an all-ages film.

]]> by: Christopher Moonlight http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/02/10/john-carter-john-carter-john-carter/#comment-57504 Sat, 10 Feb 2007 18:03:12 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/02/10/john-carter-john-carter-john-carter/#comment-57504 Didn't they do a John Carter movie already. Oh no, wait... That was Star Wars II. I love that one. Didn’t they do a John Carter movie already. Oh no, wait… That was Star Wars II. I love that one.

]]> by: Thomas Gerhardt http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/02/10/john-carter-john-carter-john-carter/#comment-57384 Sat, 10 Feb 2007 15:36:14 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/02/10/john-carter-john-carter-john-carter/#comment-57384 If I may briefly bring you back from the brink of geek orgasm, Heidi – Neither one of the two released Zemeckis motion caption 3D animation extravangas ("Polar Express", "Monster House") were critical or commercial successes. Both of them are also seen as artistic failures. And while it is generally bad form to project past failures into future projects, I don't think that a "straight" John Carter in 3D will be a success, simply based on every failed animated project that tried to do SF or Fantasy (barring "The Incredibles", which however played according to the rules of a family sitcom) in the past 30 years. If I may briefly bring you back from the brink of geek orgasm, Heidi –

Neither one of the two released Zemeckis motion caption 3D animation extravangas (”Polar Express”, “Monster House”) were critical or commercial successes.

Both of them are also seen as artistic failures.

And while it is generally bad form to project past failures into future projects, I don’t think that a “straight” John Carter in 3D will be a success, simply based on every failed animated project that tried to do SF or Fantasy (barring “The Incredibles”, which however played according to the rules of a family sitcom) in the past 30 years.

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