[adrotate banner=”1″]Gee, I guess we should be reporting on this, especially since it looks like this movie might actually get off the ground this time. Maybe. Andrew Stanton mentions they will mix life action and CGI, so who knows how this will turn out. The story changes might be a problem, but then only to people like me. I also doubt everyone will be walking around naked. But he did WALL-E, and that movie was awesome, so maybe there is hope. More info in the link.

‘John Carter Of Mars’ To Be ‘Perfect Definition’ Of Live-Action, CGI Hybrid
Published by Eric Ditzian on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 12:18 pm.
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“It’s real,” Stanton assured us. “We’re full bore on it right now. We’re over the hump of the writing phase, and we’re certainly far from rewrites.”
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“I don’t want to be dissing it,” he said, “but it almost had an absence of a story for a feature film because it was very episodic. In its day it was a comic book. I mean, this book was written in 1912. It was the comic book you got in the time before there was such thing as comic books. So, it was really just about the next fight, the next adventure, the next romance.”
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Messing with a classic of the fantasy genre is always risky, but Stanton believes the passage of time is on his side. “Fortunately it’s an old enough story,” he said. “There isn’t such huge allegiance to it that people won’t mind that we muck with it a bit to hopefully amplify the essence of what made me interested in it as a young kid and hopefully will keep me interested in it as an adult.”
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