It looks like the rumors are true. Pixar is making plans to adapt Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars series to the big screen. What’s more, is that Pixar plans to commission three movies based on the series.
According to Slashfilm.com, the Pixar team made a trip to the Edgar Rice Burroughs archives to begin research for the trilogy. The team included Andrew Stanton, who did the screenplay and direction for “Wall-E,” and Pixar executive Jim Morris.
About John Carter of Mars:
John Carter is a red blooded American civil war hero and fighting man from Virginia. A strange incident whilst prospecting in Apache country propels him to Mars where he immediately encounters the enormous war-like green men of Mars and the planets equally alien landscapes, animals and technology. Soon Carter falls in with the red men (and their beautiful red women) and his non-stop adventures begin.
The first movie in the “John Carter of Mars” series is expected to hit theaters by 2012.
