Probably a lot of you have seen this trailer for John Carter a new movie by Disney and thought, "Huh?" It doesn't have princesses (EDIT: the cutesy, marketable to 4 year old kind), the aliens don't feel particularly futuristic and overall, it doesn't look very Disney either. The minute I saw the trailer I jumped up and down and nearly wet myself with EXCITEMENT.
John Carter is the main character in a series of sci-fi books my dad gave me back in high school. I only got through two of them but they were excellent. It was originally published in 1940 but my copies are from the 1970s/1980s.
The nub and gist of what I'm saying is go see it. It will be good (I hope).
I have a few of those books and love them - I'm also hoping the film will be good. There are princesses in the books!
ReplyDeleteOoooh! I didn't know they were based off of a book!
ReplyDeleteThe same guy wrote the Tarzan books.
DeleteYou had me at the video. That John Carter, he's pretty.
ReplyDeleteThis series of books, the Barsoom Series, were actually initially published as a serial in 1912 and then collected into one volume, A Princess of Mars, in 1917-1943. The first three in the series are a trilogy in which John Carter is clearly the hero. The intervening books between these three and last two, which again focus on John Carter--John Carter of Mars: John Carter and the Giant of Mars and John Carter of Mars: Skeleton Men of Jupiter (published 1941 and 1943 respectively)--focus on descendants of characters from the first three. I've only read a few of the earlier books in the series as they're kinda hard to come by (read: The library doesn't carry them). I'm kinda dying to get my hands on them as I'm a bit of an early sci-fi nerd and working on a paper about early 20th century sci-fi. Oh who am I kidding... I'm gigantic a sci-fi nerd!
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