John Carter of Mars received a trio of new talent with the additions of Samantha Morton, Dominic West and Polly Walker to the cast of Disney's live-action adaptation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs classic, joining Willem Dafoe, Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins.
John Carter of Mars was part of Burroughs' Martian series of novels and has appeared in a number of comic books, including DC Comics' Tarzan and Weird Worlds, a Marvel Comics series that ran from 1977-1979, and in Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.