With all the hype surrounding many upcoming CBM's over the course of this year and next, it seems
John Carter of Mars is still "lost in the mix" to many fans. Although the movie (due out March 9th 2012) went through an extensive location shoot last year, many people are still clueless of the fact the film is being made at all. Directed by Andrew Stanton,
John Carter of Mars stars Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Willem Defoe, Mark Strong, Bryan Cranston, James Purefoy, Thomas Haden Church and Ciaran Hinds. With a cast like that you would think this film would be garnering more attention than it has up to this point.
MTV News recently had the opportunity to talk with Director Andrew Stanton.
On how much effects work is still to be done with principle photography having wrapped some time ago...
"I'm not in post-production — I'm in digital principal photography now, which goes on for the rest of 2011, so I'm only halfway through the movie."
On what kind of effects we will see and what they will look like...
"I didn't try to make it look like anything else. I really tried to make it its own thing. I tried to make a very historically accurate Martian film if that makes sense, so I'll let you decipher that."
On moving into "live action filming" from animation...
"When you've made animated movies your whole life, it was pretty exciting to be outside for a day, let alone for months. For as cold and as hot and as hard as it was, which I knew it would be, I was up for it and it was a blast. It was the hardest thing I'll ever have done, but man, it was a great adventure. It was like sailing across the ocean, you know, everything that goes with that."
On Taylor Kitsch...
"Hopefully he'll be another great face on the big screen, and hopefully he'll be John Carter to people and nobody else if we've done it right,"
Hawksblueye: I have been excited about this film for quite some time. It seems every report I see concerning the film is positive.