

However, the four-armed Martians from Burroughs’ books are in woefully short supply, but maybe we’ll get another trailer that showcases them a bit more in the future. It prefers to attack young and inexperienced prey, be it green Martian, red Martian, or any other. Production-wise, this looks impressive (even if Mars does look like the landscape I drive through on my way home to California from Arizona). In a world on the brink of collapse, Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes that the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands. According to this history, when the oceans of the world began to dry out, the three. The film tells the story of war-weary, former military captain John Carter (Taylor Kitsch), who is inexplicably transported to Mars where he becomes reluctantly embroiled in a conflict of epic proportions amongst the inhabitants of the planet, including Tars Tarkas (Willem Dafoe) and the captivating Princess Dejah Thoris (Lynn Collins). The Red Martians are the predominant race on Barsoom, name by which the natives of mars call their planet According to the most widely-accepted histories, the Red Martian race is the result of centuries of interbreeding between the fair-skinned Orovar, the black-skinned First Born, and the yellow-skinned Okar. John Carter is based on a classic novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, whose highly imaginative adventures served as inspiration for many filmmakers, both past and present.

Here’s the official synopsis, which explains way more of the plot than the trailer does: They are organized into imperial city-states that control the planetary canal system. From there, the story is transported to the deserts of “Barsoom” (Mars) where Carter shows some skin, fights with a sword, and strikes epic poses as he and princess Dejah Thoris fall in love with each other. The Red Martians have created the dominant culture on Barsoom. The Red Martians are said in A Princess of Mars to have been bred when the seas of Barsoom began to dry up, in hopes of creating a hardy race to survive in the new environment.
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Actually, this isn’t breaking news, as it’s been widely-known for a while that the series of books was getting a film adaptation from Disney, but the studio has just released a trailer that definitely proves the movie is a massive, epic, undertaking.īased on the trailer, it looks like the story will be told as a giant flashback, courtesy of the journals that Edgar Rice Burroughs inherits when his uncle John Carter dies. The Red Martians are the interbred descendants of the ancient Yellow Martians, White Martians and Black Martians, remnants of which exist in isolated areas of the planet, particularly the poles. The first trailer for Disney’s John Carter is out, and it certainly looks promising.Īfter only 80 years, John Carter of Mars is finally coming to movie theaters.
