Meet John Carter and Dejah Thoris
THR is reporting that Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins, both recently seen in WOLVERINE, have been cast in Andrew Stanton’s upcoming JOHN CARTER OF MARS. The role of the Virginian gentleman was hotly contested, the trade reports:
The role of Carter was considered one of the “gets” for a young actor, and Disney has spent months meeting and testing a wide swath of names from Jon Hamm to Josh Duhamel during its search.
Jon Hamm…hm, that would be our pick but…we won’t complain too much. Kitsch didn’t suck in his brief role as Gambit, and he will certainly look fine in a Martian loincloth (it was hard finding a picture of him with his shirt on.) Collins is quite lovely, but is she “incomparable”? We’ll see — the Julliard-trained thesp did much better with a really dumbass character in WOLVERINE than you would expect.
06/15/09 at 12:17 pm
I haven’t seen Wolverine, but Kitsch is fantastic in Friday Night Lights (the tv version).
06/15/09 at 12:30 pm
Looks like The Sandman (Thomas Haden Church) might be joining the cast as well.
And, in regards to Hamm’s nudity, it seems there are similar pictures of Ms. Collins. (From what I remember, in the first book Dejah is topless. How did DC and Marvel handle that? Does she become “civilized” in later novels?) Will ERB fans nitpick this aspect of the movie if her “treasures” are hidden?
06/15/09 at 12:46 pm
Torsten- IIRC, folks on Barsoom wear no clothes a’tall… Just holsters and straps for their weapons. I imagine the closest we’ll get to that is some Frazetta-style bikini/loincloth combos.
The real casting coup is Tars Tarkas… Any eight foot tall actors with four arms out there?
06/15/09 at 12:54 pm
I was just catching 300 on TV (we got a free preview this weekend, yay!) and was just thinking how great a “Mars” movie would be if it was made in that style. I don’t really see how Disney can do this movie and still be true, but then again, that’s usually when I’m pleasantly surprised.
06/15/09 at 1:01 pm
Here are some detailed visualizations of Martian clothing, and an artist’s rendering of Dejah Thoris.
SRS
06/15/09 at 1:27 pm
Most welcome news in the Dougan household. Kitsch is a big favorite of the Missus, and is terrific in FNL. For my money, Collins is a fine actress in all senses of the word. You’ve gotta love a woman who looks like that and can wrangle the iambic pentameter. Or I do, anyway.
06/15/09 at 1:35 pm
“You’re probably wondering how I didn’t die.”
06/15/09 at 1:40 pm
After watching Lynn Collins in the first season of True Blood, I kinda like the idea of her as Dejah Thoris.
06/15/09 at 2:04 pm
Is that Billy Corgan with hair?
06/15/09 at 3:11 pm
Chuck, that’s just what I was thinking. I also don’t think this actress is curvy enough for Deja Thoris. Of course everything I know about Deja Thoris comes from drawings by Frank Cho and to some extent, Adam Hughes.
06/15/09 at 4:10 pm
SHE’S NOT MARTIAN ENOUGH
06/15/09 at 7:32 pm
Is it just me or do these “comics movie casting” posts now seem to get more comments than posts about comics?
06/15/09 at 11:42 pm
Mark, yeah but it’s always been that way for some reason. Wider appeal perhaps?
06/16/09 at 2:00 am
For me, their the only posts where people don’t get mad at me… so far. Hey, I just read Batgirl year one, from the library. Not the best, but pretty good, and I loved the artwork. Kind of Steve Rude like… Random, I know.