Disney May Be Making A Sequel To ‘John Carter’ Because Everything Is Terrible

The author is a moron. Stop spreading this type of negative publicity and trying to ruin what many folks would actually like to see. If you didn’t like the movie, then don’t watch the sequel.

In my opinion and many others John Carter was a well made film that was entertaining through and through. The only “fail” was the marketing departments part in deciding to change the name of the title from “Princess of Mars” to John Carter. I mean wtf, no one would make a movie about the Zelda series, called “Link” and expect it to get the necessary amount of publicity. Now stop being a whiny brat and write articles that actually contribute something of value.

I liked it, and would love a second third….

I did like this movie when I first saw it at the theaters. And I found this page, ’cause I recently saw it again and I was wondering if there was going to be a 2nd one to see what happened once he returned to mars 10 years later. To what you mentioned of the director. It is true he is awesome on cartoon movies. But John Carter was not animated it was just science fiction, he is not an expert on this area. Disney should have hire someone else. Nonetheless, the story line and the actors were awesome.

We enjoyed the movie and the books. We have seen the movie probably a thousand times now cause every time it was on cable or tv we watched it and then we bought it and watch it at least twice a month. Sometimes you have to see beyond the acting and issues with the story and just let yourself be entertained and introduced to a new world of possibilities.

I’m really tired of hearing how bad a movie John Carter was. That is BUNK. The reason this movie “bombed” had nothing to do with the quality of the movie – I believe that most everyone who actually saw the movie liked it. It had its flaws, but they were minor. There were two reasons It didn’t succeed: One – Disney did a lousy job promoting it, and Two – Critics like Carrie Stemke, the author of this hatchet job, never gave the movie a chance. They took their prejudices into the screenings and came out of the experience unchanged, refusing to acknowledge that old-style swashbuckling adventure/romance stories (ala: the great Errol Flynn and Barrymore movies), which is what the novels were, had any place in in movie theater in the 21st century, unless, of course, they have “Star Wars” in the title. The only difference from those old movies and John Carter is that this was based on another planet and not on a ship, or in Sherwood Forest. Those same critics then proceeded to savage a good movie with their terrible reviews, based on their pre-conceived notions, not what they actually watched – if any of them actually watched the movie they were paid to review. They scared off a wider audience leaving Burroughs aficionados to make up the bulk of ticket sales. But as can be seen from comments, across the internet, by the unsuspecting movie going public with no prior knowledge of the stories – it was very well received.
Here’s hoping the franchise gets another chance, with the same cast and same overall design – Lynn Collins was a great Dejah Thoris, and even Taylor Kitsch, who was highly criticized for his performance, did a good job, IMO.
I would love to see a high profile director, such as Peter Jackson, James Cameron or Ridley Scott take over the job, but that will never happen. So just put a competent director on the job, someone with experience in sprawling epic type movies, and market it properly.

As much as anyone I would like the sequel to the “John Carter of Mars” film
to be produced, but it needs a roadmap to get there.

First the film needs to be re-released with its correct title “A Princess
of Mars”. No need to beat about the bush concerning tipping off the public as
to the screenplay heading for Mars, so be up front in the title and cash in on
the brand recognition and the Edgar Rice Burroughs name as the author by putting
it up there in big letters. People like me waited half a lifetime to see this
book turned into a movie and it has the potential to be a greater hit than the
“Star Wars” Trilogy, which incidentally paid homage to it when citing a rider
sitting on a Banth. The Burroughs book should simultaneously be released with a
movie tie-in cover and a range of merchandise set up for the usual toys and
collector items such as Martian weapons, airships, fliers and character
figurines and beasts. Collectors will descend on this merchandise like a swarm
of locusts.

The next thing is to put in a voice over somewhere along the track that
this is a Mars of millions of years ago when the planet had started to dry up.
Burroughs never intended that, but in his day nothing much was known of Mars and
if John Carter is astral travelling in space then he may as well travel in time
as well. The linking of ancient Mars and cowboy-era Earth can be attributed to
some fold in space and time and the view from Mars of Jasoom can be explained by
them looking through this rift is space and time as the Thals seem to be au fait
with different epochs and planets as explained in the film. Like all fantasies
the audience is more interested in the cut of the cloth than the weave, so the
storyline need not explain any of this stuff in great detail.

The other movies will be made only if they make money and right now it
seems that Disney is letting a multi-million dollar property slip through its
hands because the critics saw the original film as derivative when all the other
“similar” movies are actually copies of it, or more accurately of Burroughs’s
first Martian book. Although some things were changed to reflect the modern
state of knowledge, I thought the producers did a great job in bringing the guts
of the first Barsoom novel to the screen and surely Dejah Thoris must be
wondering where John Carter has got to, but in the movies he may be gone only
hours or weeks, not years and decades. Just as long as the movie leads are
still young enough to reprise their roles we may yet return to Barsoom and the
Twin Towers of Helium for the next enthralling instalment.

Of course we have been to Mars before with Gullivar Jones, but he missed
the opportunity to return (but in a way the producers borrowed his amulet which
in a comic book reinterpretation replaced that dusty roll of
carpet).

This is just the kind of purile rubbish that (so called critics) spewed at the time of the original movies release. This muppet wouldn’t know a good film if it landed on his head. It was a brilliant attempt to try something new,not the same recycled,sad,worn out franchises we have come to expect from Hollywood. The idiot at Disney,that thought it was a better idea to buy the Star Bores franchise,rather than back John Carter needs shooting. Love the books,loved the film. Bring on John Carter 2 !! And a pox on all critics !!!

spend money on female reboots. so much better than EGB. note to author: that is called mocking sarcasm.. leaving out Avatar deliberately, when James Cameron himself said he wanted to do a John Carter like story? what planet is this guy from, Cosoom?

The actual news is that Disney has let the rights to this movie lapse to The Edgar Rice Burroughs Foundation. NOT that Disney might make a sequel. I have check a few reviews of this Carrie Stemke, and ALL of them had just such an inaccuracy in the headline or the first 1-2 sentences. Who reviews the reviewer?

It’s not a fact that it wasn’t well received. The author of this doesn’t take in account of the major movies that were out around that time, case in point one of the Hunger Games movies came out a couple weeks after John Carter was released. People would be saving to see that since it was what was IN trend at the moment, that and Wrath of the Titans, which is also a well received movie by people.

Most people were saving for their favorite movies and watching those said movies multiple times. John Carter (oh wait Prince of Mars, thanks marketing department. -heavy sarcasm- Plus that fact advertisement of the movie was dropped heavily which makes no sense for a big budgeted movie…) probably would have been well received if other movies weren’t in trend at the moment. People weren’t thinking about “Hey John Carter might be decent to watch” they were thinking “OMG! Hunger Games next movie is coming out!” Honestly I was one of those people, but I bought John Carter after the movie came out and I regret not having seen it before hand.

The story is rather amazing and inspirational and full of imagination that movies as of late are greatly lacking to be honest. Think about it this movie shows potential for an amazing series if only it had been given a perfect time to shine. Look at current movies, how many of them are remakes? How many of them lack any sort of imagination? How many of them are just another rendition of another movie. Honestly Zombies, Vampires, remakes of of movies such as Spiderman, Superman, Batman, etc….. it’s getting really dry. I love the imagination Harry Potter series, The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe series, Golden Compass (honestly I want the next one but it probably wont happen…), John Carter, Hunger Games, Maze Runner series, Avatar, etc. brought because it actually hold attention and keeps you wanting to know what happened next.

What we need is more movies like John Carter, but we can’t get that if people keep bashing a movie and never actually giving it a chance to thrive. I have also come to the conclusion that I can’t trust movie critics. Why? Because every one of them are biased… tell me I’m wrong, seriously I am absolutely serious. They will find something about the movie to harp on and degrade, but when they find a movie that appeals to them they praise it yet it gets horrible ratings afterwards… and the movies they actually out right bash get better ratings than anyone thought they would. So in actuality, you can’t base squat off a critic, or the fact that it’s ratings hadn’t been high during it’s initial release when there are many other factors that play in the success of a movie.

I have watched this movie 3 times and really liked the entire concept. I agree about the bad timing on the release. That said, I would indeed pay to go see this in version 2.

I liked it, I would like to see the sequel

Wheres the sequel?????????????????????

i hought it was done well and would like to very much see 2.