John Carter (2012) - trailer [HD]

Teaser trailer for the scifi-adventure John Carter, based on the lead character in Edgar Rice Burroughs' 11-volume Barsoom series. Directed by Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo, Wall-E), and starring Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Willem Dafoe, Thomas Haden Church, Mark Strong and Samantha Morton. Release date: March 9, 2012. disney.go.com/johncarter

Lynn Collins is playing the female lead, Dejah Thoris .

For those who aren't familiar with the novels: John Carter, a Confederate war veteran turned prospector, is mystically transported to the planet Mars (Barsoom), whose weaker gravity gives him great strength. In the course of his adventures he meets princess Dejah Thoris and becomes her consort.

I've sometimes played with the idea of writing an alternate version of the story, in which Dejah Thoris, ambushed and captured by the Green Martians, is transported to Earth -- whose demser, oxygen-rich atmosphere endows her with superhuman vigor. She saves John Carter from the Apaches who are pursuing him at the beginning of Burroughs' novel and ... well, that's about as far as I thought it out.

Anyone who'd like to use my idea is more than welcome to do so.

P.S. I wonder if Carter's service in the Confederate army will remain part of his back-story in the movie.

Sounds like a cool concept.

P.S. I wonder if Carter's service in the Confederate army will remain part of his back-story in the movie.

From what I've been able to gather, he will be a Confederate veteran in the movie, which kind of surprised me, given the pee-cee times in which we live. (though maybe they'll make him a deserter or something). Of course, some people won't be too happy about that.

a few pix of Lynn Collins as Dejah Thoris from the trailer:

Argo, I like your idea. It hadn't occurred to me to think of it that way. I always imagined it as John Carter's sister Joan who'd mystically transported to Mars, saved the young prince, and so forth.

AK!!! Where have you been? Welcome back!

Will you ever be making the stories from your old site available again? And do you have any plans for new ones?

Thanks. Been a little busy. Then when SWM changed format, it wouldn't let me log in and the "forgot your password?" thing didn't work right. I'll try to get back into the groove.

Working on a bunch of new/old stuff. Like having the Last Daughter of Krypton arriving on a Bavarian farm about 1922. Blue-eyed blonde, the perfect Aryan... or ubermadchen. Or same time period but arriving in Japan. She doesn't look Japanese but grows up as one. Or arriving 12-th century England and falls in with Robin of Locksley and his group.

A top-secret biological project at Peenemunde results in the creation of some supergirls, who spearhead the German conquest of the world.

And the latest: collecting pictures and working up an outline for "Dejah Thoris of Earth"