How could that not work on billboards? “Nude. O.K., yes, “The Artist” was not wildly commercial, but now add another masterstroke from Burroughs’s fevered brain: all the Martians were naked. In Burroughs’s version all the Martian creatures communicated telepathically-that is, silently. Second, the filmmakers should have departed less from their source material. Tharks and Thoats and alien hovercraft-and then lay them aside and pitch their film as “The Notebook.” So our progenitor story feels derivative.” The director planned to emphasize the romance between John Carter and Princess Dejah Thoris of Mars: “It’s the ultimate Heathcliff and Cathy, because they’re even from different planets.” That sell never happened, probably because it’s almost impossible for boys to spend so much on toys-to lavishly and painstakingly build C.G.I. This feels just like ‘The Terminator,’ because every other action hero comes from this story. When I first met Stanton, he showed me a working version of a trailer that he disliked: “We shouldn’t be selling sci-fi and battles-I hate it when you’re selling a movie you don’t have.
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