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reapersaurus · 05-01-2006, 04:43 PM

John Carter of Mars has already been through the Hollywood ringer, tho most don;t know it.
Read up on William Stout's (IIRC) interview in Comics Interview (?) about the failed JCoM movie that was "directed" by John McTiernan.
He wanted to do it almost all CGI, back in like 1993 I think - it woulda cost 200 million back then. Stout thought it was because McTiernan didn;t want to do the film, and this was a way he could back out, since the Hollywood contracts are such that if it doesn't get made in a certain amount of time, than he gets paid anyway.

I think Favrou did a good job with Zathura - just saw it this weekend.

05-01-2006, 04:43 PM	#18 (permalink)
reapersaurus Don't phear the reaper Join Date: May 2002 Location: Sacramento, CA	John Carter of Mars has already been through the Hollywood ringer, tho most don;t know it. Read up on William Stout's (IIRC) interview in Comics Interview (?) about the failed JCoM movie that was "directed" by John McTiernan. He wanted to do it almost all CGI, back in like 1993 I think - it woulda cost 200 million back then. Stout thought it was because McTiernan didn;t want to do the film, and this was a way he could back out, since the Hollywood contracts are such that if it doesn't get made in a certain amount of time, than he gets paid anyway. I think Favrou did a good job with Zathura - just saw it this weekend. __________________ "You mean you killed off REAL heroes so that you could PRETEND to be one!?!"