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Category: Family
All Genres: Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Release Year: 2012
Country: USA
Runtime:
Rating: 6.3 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Jay Roach
Sound: DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
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Writing by: Edgar Rice Burroughs – (novel and characters)
Andrew Stanton – screenplay

Produced by: Susan Montford – producer

Cast: Russell Crowe – John Biebe
Hank Azaria – Charles Danner
Mary McCormack – Donna Biebe
Burt Reynolds – Judge Walter Burns
Colm Meaney – Mayor Scott Pitcher
Lolita Davidovich – Mary Jane Pitcher
Maury Chaykin – Bailey Pruitt
Ron Eldard – Skank Marden
Ryan Northcott – Stevie Weeks
Michael Buie – Connor Banks
Kevin Durand – Tree Lane

Music: Carter Burwell
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Plot Outline: Civil War vet John Carter is transplanted to Mars, where he discovers a lush, wildly diverse planet…
Plot: Civil War vet John Carter is transplanted to Mars, where he discovers a lush, wildly diverse planet whose main inhabitants are 12-foot tall green barbarians. Finding himself a prisoner of these creatures, he escapes, only to encounter Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, who is in desperate need of a savior.

Crazy Credits: We know about 2 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Instead of standard disclaimer:  Any similarity with persons living or dead is an accident. Sorry

Goofs: We know about 4 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: At the end of the game against the NY Rangers, the back of Banks jersey is covered in ice. In a subsequent scene, his jersey is clean.

Trivia: There are 2 entries in the trivia list – like these:

• In 2004 – when the project was still known as “A Princess of Mars” after the book on which its based – Robert Rodriguez had originally been signed and announced as director and had begun pre-production early that year (it would have been his largest project to date with starting budget reported at $100 million). Rodriguez most notable contribution was to hire fantasy painter Frank Frazetta (whose most acclaimed works have included striking illustrations of Edgar Rice Burroughs novels, most notably the “John Carter on Mars” books) as production designer on the film. However, when Rodriguez resigned from the Directors Guild of America (DGA) the same year (due to a dispute over his film Sin City (2005)), Paramount was forced to replace him. The studio has a long-standing arrangement with the DGA in which only the organizations members may direct Paramount films. He was replaced with director Kerry Conran, who had just finished Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004). In 2005, Conran left the project and was replaced by Jon Favreau just before the release of Favreaus movie Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005).
• “A Princess of Mars” was originally published as “Under the Moons of Mars” by Norman Bean (Edgar Rice Burroughs pseudonym) in The All-Story (six pulp magazine issues February – July, 1912). Burroughs was originally afraid that he might be ridiculed for writing such a tale, so he decided to use a pen name. The pseudonym was supposed to be a pun “Normal Bean” (as in “Im a normal bean”) to reassure people, but the man who typeset the text thought it was a mistake, so he changed it to “Norman”.