Damn...I need how much?
According to New York Magazine, John Carter of Mars needs to earn a whopping $700 Million at the worldwide box office in order to justify a sequel. That would mean that the film needs a higher box-office total than the first Iron Man movie and finish roughly near the first Transformers movie.
Yeah, good luck with that.
I will admit that the trailer was intriguing and the movie is based on a series of books that have a worldwide following however, as of this moment, general populace interest is pretty low for this flick and there's isn't a big name actor in the lead role. Still, just like the fore-mentioned Iron Man, this movie could come out of nowhere and surprise people and make Taylor Kitsch a bona fide star.
John Carter's reported $250 Million budget doesn't help matters either.
And to refresh your memory, here's the first teaser trailer for the film. Expect promotions to pickup in the coming months.
John Carter probably holds the record for having the longest period of "development hell" for any movie, at 79 years. The film entered development hell when preproduction first started for it in 1931, when Robert Clampett (director of 'Looney Tunes') approached Edgar Rice Burroughs, the author of 'John Carter', to make an animated feature out of the first book in the series (which is what this film is also an adaptation of). Had plans gone through, 'John Carter' would have become the first animated feature the world had seen, beating Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The film finally left development hell in 2010 when filming officially started on Andrew Stanton;s film.
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