First Description Of John Carter Trailer Revealed!

First Description Of John Carter Trailer Revealed!

Check out the first description of the upcoming trailer for Andrew Stanton-directed big screen adaptation John Carter, provided by Bleeding Cool...

By PaulRom - Jul 07, 2011 01:07 PM EST
Filed Under: John Carter of Mars
Source: Bleeding Cool

Courtesy of Bleeding Cool, we now have what may be our first description of the teaser trailer for the upcoming film John Carter, which will reportedly be attached to the new Harry Potter film next week. Check it out below...



The trailer begins with shots on Earth, the young Edgar Rice Burroughs being met in the street and addressed. It was the name “Burroughs” and the face of Daryl Sabara that tipped me off to what this trailer was.

If these Earth shots weren’t filmed on an expansive, real soundstage but created digitally, it’s top-tier stuff. It was a living, breathing street, very busy and cluttered with life. No matter how they were created, they were very pleasing.

And I’ll be damned if I can’t remember how the transition to Mars, or perhaps more properly Barsoom, comes, but it must have been more or less a straight cut – a quick fade to black and back again at most. We were there before we knew it.

Everything had a very, very natural look to it, and my preconceptions that the film’s design would be stylised in an Avatar fashion were proven completely unfounded.

Only one shot seemed to feature one of the CG characters, and I can’t tell you which one, but he was male. The voice over appeared to be done by Willem Dafoe, presumably in the character of Tars Tarkas. This suggests it was this character I was looking at, though I’ve got my doubts. Is Tarkas not meant to be an incredible warrior? Not sure this gels with the character I saw.

Most of the shots of Barsoom showed very few signs of life. There was some kind of huge leap sequence in which Carter propelled himself from landmark to landmark – though, from the trailer presented, it wasn’t clear how he was doing so. Despite the physics of what he was doing being unnatural, at least by Earth standards, it all looked oddly realistic.

We got a good few shots of Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins, not much of anybody else, and Kitsch seemed to be decked out in warpaint, and was typically stripped to the waist.

Nothing gave away any indication of plot, and it all felt rather like pieces of a puzzle with no indication at all of how they were meant to fit together. Not my favourite kind of trailer, but obviously preferable to those which spoil sixty percent of a film’s major plot points.

Well, to a film buff audience at least – I’m not sure of the efficacy of enigma in marketing.

At the end of the trailer, a complex insignia unravelled to leave just the JCM glyph from the poster. That ‘M’ is now strictly irrelevant as a marketing symbol for the film, but the design is nice, so I can see why they wouldn’t want to toss it.

Or, as I said, this is how I remembered the trailer. If I hadn’t been so surprised, I’d have managed far better recall, I’m sure.


This trailer will go on wide release with the new Harry Potter film, I understand. And it’s also due online soon.


John Carter hits theaters March 9th, 2012!
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StrangerX
StrangerX - 7/7/2011, 1:50 PM
The more natural it looks and feels the better
bleedthefreak
bleedthefreak - 7/7/2011, 2:10 PM
about damn time. Screw TDKR, The Avengers, and MOS Johna Carter is my most anticipated of 2012.

Nice find @PaulRom
ComicsCommando
ComicsCommando - 7/7/2011, 2:18 PM
Awesome.
marvel72
marvel72 - 7/7/2011, 3:19 PM
can't wait to see the trailer,can't say i know much about john carter of mars but i'm still looking forward to the movie.
gambgel
gambgel - 7/7/2011, 3:51 PM
it has probably been told...

but Ive just noticed that the logo of the teaser poster is done with the first letters of the movie's tittle, lol

J C M = John Carter of Mars

XD
Ranger14
Ranger14 - 7/7/2011, 3:58 PM
"There was some kind of huge leap sequence in which Carter propelled himself from landmark to landmark – though, from the trailer presented, it wasn’t clear how he was doing so. Despite the physics of what he was doing being unnatural, at least by Earth standards, it all looked oddly realistic."

I guess he isn't familiar with the source. Carter has unique physical abilities due to the gravitational difference between Earth and Mars.
HulkPool
HulkPool - 7/7/2011, 4:06 PM
@Gambgel they changed the title to just John Carter, thats why he says it irrelevant.
cherokeesam
cherokeesam - 7/7/2011, 4:42 PM
Yeah, but the big question is:

how nekkid is Dejah Thoris?
admiralhowdy
admiralhowdy - 7/7/2011, 5:28 PM
Sweet. I'm so pleased to see on IMDB that the characters encompass Apaches all the way to Zodangans, but I'm still puzzled how Matai Shang will be involved at all... unless its one of those type of deals where they've already filmed more than what we will see in the first movie.
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