Collider's Steve Weintraub had the opportunity to talk to Bryan Cranston from
AMC's Breaking Bad. The topic eventually turned to
John Carter Of Mars.
This from Collider....
Collider: I definitely have more questions of Breaking Bad but I definitely want to ask you before I run out of time, you’re going to be in Andrew Stanton’s John Carter of Mars.
Cranston: Yeah, I am. We already started shooting that. I shot for a week in London a couple weeks ago.
Collider: Can you talk about who you play in the film and are you excited to be in this huge movie?
Cranston: Very excited. I liked the script first and foremost. That’s why I went in to meet with Andrew. And then his infectious enthusiasm for the movie and for characters and it just….I caught his bug. And I said, yes, so I’ll be a part of it. I’ll do whatever you want me to do. And so I play, during the Civil War America time….this story takes place part-time Civil War America and Mars, which has no time. So my character is a Northern Colonel who is dogging John Carter to be a part of the government. We need his help. He’s an excellent tracker and marksman and that sort of thing. And in the Arizona Territories, the Apaches are running wild, so I need his help and he won’t do it. He doesn’t want to have anything to do with anything. His family was obliterated during the War. It was horrible and he wants to be a part of no man’s government. So I keep after him and keep after him and track him down and have a conversation with him and have to use some physical force on him and he keeps breaking out and I keep tracking him down. And finally we end up in a cave and in this cave are some magical things that happen. And that transports him and it’s really quite fascinating and I look forward to it.
Cranston: No, I have 2 more weeks to go. We’ll pick that up in Utah in April.
John Carter Of Mars is based on the character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It is directed by Andrew Stanton and stars Taylor Kitsch, James Purefoy, Bryan Cranston, Mark Strong and Willem Dafoe. It is set to be released in 2012.
This movie is starting to look like it could be epic.