John Carter (Original title)John Carter of Mars (Alternative title)John Carter of Mars JCM (Alternative title)
Dates: 2012 (Copyright), 09 March 2012 (Release)Country: USADirector: Andrew Stanton
Synopsis: Fantasy adventure. The writer Edgar Rice Burroughs is summoned by lawyers to a stately home, where he must read the diary of the recently deceased John Carter. The diary tells of a fantastical adventure, in which Carter, a Virginian American Civil War soldier, falls foul of the army and hides in a cave, where a mysterious medallion transports him to Mars. There Carter gets involved in a Martian civil war, aiding a princess in her battle against an enemy alien tribe. On finishing reading the diary, Rice Burroughs finds himself charged with a task of the utmost importance that will have a great bearing on the events he has just read about.
Genres: Science Fiction, Action and Adventure
Subjects: Mars, American Civil War (1861-1865), Tribes, Widowhood
Releases
Date: 09 March 2012Country: USARelease type: TheatricalFormat: not specified - Colour - DeLuxe - Sound - Dolby Digital / DataSat / SDDSRuntime: 132 mins Dialogue (original): English
Date: 09 March 2012Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: not specified - Colour - DeLuxe - Sound - Dolby Digital / DataSat / SDDSRuntime: 131 mins 51 secs - Length: 11866 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Buena Vista International (UK)
Dates: 2012 (Copyright), 09 March 2012 (Release)Country: USADirector: Andrew Stanton
Synopsis: Fantasy adventure. The writer Edgar Rice Burroughs is summoned by lawyers to a stately home, where he must read the diary of the recently deceased John Carter. The diary tells of a fantastical adventure, in which Carter, a Virginian American Civil War soldier, falls foul of the army and hides in a cave, where a mysterious medallion transports him to Mars. There Carter gets involved in a Martian civil war, aiding a princess in her battle against an enemy alien tribe. On finishing reading the diary, Rice Burroughs finds himself charged with a task of the utmost importance that will have a great bearing on the events he has just read about.
Genres: Science Fiction, Action and Adventure
Subjects: Mars, American Civil War (1861-1865), Tribes, Widowhood
Releases
Date: 09 March 2012Country: USARelease type: TheatricalFormat: not specified - Colour - DeLuxe - Sound - Dolby Digital / DataSat / SDDSRuntime: 132 mins Dialogue (original): English
Date: 09 March 2012Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: not specified - Colour - DeLuxe - Sound - Dolby Digital / DataSat / SDDSRuntime: 131 mins 51 secs - Length: 11866 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Buena Vista International (UK)
Credits
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©: Inc. Disney Enterprises, Logo [Production Company]: Disney, Produced by: Jim Morris, Produced by: Lindsey Collins, Produced by: Colin Wilson, Associate Producer: Bob Roath, Unit Production Manager: Steve Harding, Supervising Location Manager: Laura Sode-Matteson, Location Manager: Rory Enke, Location Manager: Emma Pill, Location Manager: Ann Lukas, Post-production Supervisor: Lori Korngiebel, 2nd Unit Director: Mark Andrews, 1st Assistant Director: Tommy Gormley, Script Supervisor: Annie Penn, Casting by: Marcia Ross, Additional UK Casting by: Gail Stevens, Screenplay by: Andrew Stanton, Screenplay by: Mark Andrews, Michael Chabon, Based on the story 'A Princess of Mars' by: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Director of Photography: Dan Mindel, 2nd Unit Director of Photography: Robert Bruce McCleery, Camera Operator: Colin Anderson, Steadicam: Colin Anderson, Visual Effects Supervisor: Peter Chiang, Special Visual Effects Consultant: Eric Brevig, Visual Effects Supervisor: Sue Rowe, Visual Effects Producer: Dan Barrow, Visual Effects by: Double Negative, Visual Effects by: Cinesite, MPC, Additional Visual Effects by: Nvisible FX, Additional Visual Effects: Destroy All Monsters, Special Effects Supervisor: Chris Corbould, Animation Supervisor: Eamonn Butler, Edited by: Eric Zumbrunnen, Additional Editor: Erik Jessen, Production Designer: Nathan Crowley, Supervising Art Director: James Hambidge, Supervising Art Director: Naaman Marshall, Senior Art Director: David Allday, Art Director: Mark Harris, Art Director: Phil Harvey, Art Director: Joseph Hodges, Art Director: John King, Art Director: Dean Wolcott, Art Director: Robert Woodruff, Art Director: Scott Zuber, Character and Creature Design by: Legacy Effects, Set Designer: Theodore Sharps, Set Designer: Darrell Wight, Character, Creature & Conceptual Artist: Michael Kutsche, Conceptual Artist: Iain McCaig, Costume Designer: Mayes C. Rubeo, Make-up Designer: Bill Corso, Hair Designer: Kevin Alexander, Main and End Ttiles: Deva Studios, End Crawl: Scarlet Letters, Music by: Michael Giacchino, Featured Vocalist: Azam Ali, Orchestra Conducted and Orchestrated by: Tim Simonec, Creature Movement Consultant: William Todd-Jones, Sound Designer: Timothy Nielsen, Sound Consultation: Ben Burtt, Ren Klyce, [Production] Sound Mixer: Chris Munro, Re-recording Mixer: Michael Semanick, Re-recording Mixer: Tom Johnson, Re-recording Mixer: Juan Peralta, Supervising Sound Editor: Jonathan Null, Supervising Sound Editor: Timothy Nielsen, Stunt Co-ordinator: Tom Struthers, Sword Master: Kevin McCurdy, Dialogue & Dialect Consultant - Barsoomian Language: Paul Frommer, Special Thank You to: the British Film Commission
Cast
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Taylor Kitsch (John Carter), Lynn Collins (Dejah Thoris), Samantha Morton (Sola), Mark Strong (Matai Shang), Ciarán Hinds (Tardos Mors), Dominic West (Sab Than), James Purefoy (Kantos Kan), Bryan Cranston (Powell), Polly Walker (Sarkoja), Daryl Sabara (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Thomas Haden Church (Tal Hajus), Willem Dafoe (Tars Tarkas), Arkie Reece (stayman 1 at helm), Davood Ghadami (stayman 3), Pippa Nixon (lightmaster), James Embree (thern 2), Philip Philmar (thern 1), Figs Jackman (man in the bowler), Emily Tierney (pretty woman in NYC doorway), Edmund Kente (telegraph clerk), Rupert Frazer (Thompson), Nicholas Woodeson (Dalton), Kyle Agnew (stable boy), Don Stark (Dix the storekeeper), Josh Daugherty (rowdy 1), Jared Cyr (rowdy 2), Sean Carrigan (cavalryman), Dusty Sorg (twitchy corporal), Christopher Goodman (stockade guard), Amanda Clayton (Sarah Carter), Akima Castaneda (Apache leader), Joe Billingiere (Apache 1), Aldred Wesley Montoya (Apache 2), Phil Cheadle (thern in cave), David Schwimmer (young thark warrior), Arnie Alpert (council member 1), Ian Ray (council member 2), Peggy Clements (council member 3), Evelyn Dubuc (council member 4), Connie Jhil McEntyre (council member 5), Daniel O'Meara (Vas Kor), Emma Clifford (lightman at helm), Oliver Boot (bodyguard (Matai)), Rebecca Sarker (stayman 1, navigator), Philip Arditti (spotter 2), Jon Favreau (thark bookie), Art Malik (Zodangan general), Holly Weston (Carter's wife (corpse)), Gary Milner (Zodangan guard), Cate Fowler (matron of chamber (Matai)), Darwin Shaw (Zodangan officer (Matai)), Eileen Page (elderly woman (Matai)), Si Evans (Zodangan guard), Myriam Acharki (priestess), Steven Cree (humble guard), Gary Tubbs (Orkney dig worker), Jeremy Booth (doctor), Jill Baker (additional voice), Zoe Thomas (maid (thern) [role not used])