Comments on: Fans Petition For A ‘John Carter’ Sequel, While Disney Tries To Figure Out Who To Blame For The Movie https://staging2.theplaylist.net/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-20120316/ Fri, 13 May 2016 12:48:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Jenna https://staging2.theplaylist.net/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-20120316/#comment-80957 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:48:20 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-112172/#comment-80957 The movie is hardly a "disaster." It's made over $110 million in just the first week, poised to make up its production budget by the weekend. Do your research and don't believe the hype. My family and I really liked the movie, and want to see it again.

]]> By: James https://staging2.theplaylist.net/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-20120316/#comment-80956 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:48:20 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-112172/#comment-80956 Jenna, I agree. On top of that, Stanton himself has said that he finished under budget, which allowed him to have reshoots. The total cost? $150 MILLION. Not 250. Write it down, H-Woodies. You might forget.

]]> By: O_Bones https://staging2.theplaylist.net/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-20120316/#comment-80955 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:48:20 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-112172/#comment-80955 When will the industry production execs ever learn to avoid Speculative Fiction and Fantasy ignorami and hire (and give creative power) to knowledgeable minds like Harlan Ellison?

]]> By: Adam https://staging2.theplaylist.net/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-20120316/#comment-80954 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:48:20 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-112172/#comment-80954 I just saw this movie and it was really good. I had hesitations because the previews made the movie look stupid, and kind of an Avatar rip off. But this movie was really really good. I was very happy with it.

]]> By: Chris https://staging2.theplaylist.net/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-20120316/#comment-80953 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:48:20 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-112172/#comment-80953 The blame rests squarely on whomever dropped the ball in marketing this film. The only promotions I saw for it were the one or two trailers (that did a horrid job of selling the movie to filmgoers), other than that, nothing. Next time, Disney needs to do more than casually release a few trailers then passive-aggressively expect a film to make Avatar amounts of money.

]]> By: michael https://staging2.theplaylist.net/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-20120316/#comment-80952 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:48:20 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-112172/#comment-80952 The movie was really good! Must of been pr that messed up.

]]> By: Gwen https://staging2.theplaylist.net/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-20120316/#comment-80951 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:48:20 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-112172/#comment-80951 The movie was awesome. The problem: the marketing was weak. I didn't really know what to expect, but my two sons asked to go see it. After seeing it, I hope there is a sequel. Really great movie.

]]> By: Katie https://staging2.theplaylist.net/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-20120316/#comment-80948 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:48:19 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-112172/#comment-80948 You never know! I mean if they made it for a lot less, 250 million is too much for any film! What the hell did they spend the money on!!! But I loved it! I'll cry if there's no sequel. Gutted fan x

]]> By: Jevex https://staging2.theplaylist.net/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-20120316/#comment-80950 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:48:19 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-112172/#comment-80950 Stanton certainly bears the lion's share of responsibility, since he had the "last word" on both the screenplay and the publicity campaign. While the film was excellent, from the standpoint of an accurate rendition of the various peoples and creatures created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the plot deviated far too many times from the plot of the novel, thus disappointing legions of fans who have read and re-read the books over the last 50 or 60 years. I fell in love with the tale when I was 13, and that was 45 years ago, and was much disappointed that Stanton & Co. felt that they could wreak such story-changes with a tale that is as well-loved by its own legions of fans as The Lord of the Rings is, by its fan-base. With Peter Jackson's "Rings", we at least got a fairly accurate (if condensed) retelling of Tolkien's books, complete with much of the actual dialogue from the book translating to the film. With Stanton, we got perhaps five words of the tongue that Burroughs created, plus two "old Barsoomian proverbs".

This doesn't exempt the studio heads from blame, however. If they're going to sink that sort of money in a franchise-building film, they ought to have seen that there was insufficient publicity being given to it. If you're going to get people to show up at a film, you've got to build up some excitement for it in the months before it debuted. With "Carter", the vast majority of publicity wound up being restricted to "fan-buzz" on a couple websites.

And what happened to the title? Supposedly, some survey discovered that females don't flock to films with "Mars" in the title, and men avoid "Princess" movies like the plague unless they are dragged (kicking and screaming all the way) by their lady-friends. Perhaps "A Princess of Mars" (the book's title, after all) would have pulled both segments into the theater seats. With the addition of just a few hints of ROMANCE to the trailers that were released, that just might have happened. (Of course, by the time that Stanton & Co. got done savaging the plot of the original novel, there was precious little "romance" left in the plot, except for at the very end of the film.

I still have hopes for a sequel, but my guess is that we're going to have to wait for five or more years, until some other studio works up the nerve to do a "re-make" of this film , and actually do it up right, according to the book upon which it was based.

]]> By: Goundy https://staging2.theplaylist.net/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-20120316/#comment-80949 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:48:19 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-112172/#comment-80949 In my opinion it is a great movie ! I watched it by curiosity but I had never heard of John Carter in the past.

I think the problem Disney had with this movie is directly related with marketing/promotion. It is not normal I learned that the movie action was on Mars only when I started watching the movie as an example…

]]> By: Don https://staging2.theplaylist.net/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-20120316/#comment-80939 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:48:19 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-112172/#comment-80939 The title should have been, as Burroughs wrote it,"A Princess of Mars"! John Carter is a main character, BUT does Not translate as a title to stick in the mind as a coming attraction to moviegoer's. Actually the movie was a pleasure to watch on my DVR and I have; at least 6+ times, when my 200 channel lineup is BORING! I think when you add up the Total worldwide sales including DVD & Blue-Ray, John Carter will be in large Profit. Hollywood is always in a Huge hurry, sometimes word of Mouth takes a while. A sequel would do even better as the "therns" are a Galactic menace, that anger the soul of freedom lovers everywhere!

]]> By: Laura https://staging2.theplaylist.net/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-20120316/#comment-80947 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:48:19 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-112172/#comment-80947 I don't go to the movies a lot, or watch tv.. But usually I have some idea of the movies that are coming out — radio, CNN, magazine covers, etc, trailers and will make an exception for things that are truly interesting. With this one I heard nada. Love the series, but didn't even recognize the title at first when looking at the list of movies last weekend and had to read description to realize what it was. Horrible marketing job all around. I'm a huge fan and only saw it by accident.

]]> By: Pat https://staging2.theplaylist.net/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-20120316/#comment-80946 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:48:19 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-112172/#comment-80946 What a shame! I enjoyed the movie, especially using a real location as backdrop and not cg. Great costuming, too. The music did nothing for it, though the main theme was not bad. No punch to the action added by music, making for blandness. Film needed a John Williams. Sound editing drubbed out the few humorous asides from Hinds and Purefoy. Too bad. I hope they have enough invested in the costumes, etc to warrant a sequel.

]]> By: Ward https://staging2.theplaylist.net/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-20120316/#comment-80945 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:48:19 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-112172/#comment-80945 LOVE THE MOVIE! I've seen it 4 times !!! I just went and saw Hunger Games. It was ok but not as good a John Carter . Disney has a diamond in the rough. They just have to polish up the marketing.

]]> By: Paul https://staging2.theplaylist.net/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-20120316/#comment-80944 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:48:19 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-112172/#comment-80944 The movie was awesome. I never heard of it had a friend tell me about it. I geuss it was bad PR. After seeing it, I hope there is a sequel. I loved It! Really great movie.

]]> By: Daria https://staging2.theplaylist.net/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-20120316/#comment-80943 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:48:19 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-112172/#comment-80943 The "Take Me Back To Barsoom" group has now reached just shy of 8000 members in a matter of a few weeks and we keep on rollin'! Unlike the folks at Disney, we fans are going to CELEBRATE this beautiful film all over the world next week, particularly as it leaves the mothership, The El Capitan Theater, next Thursday evening with its final screening. Bravo to the "John Carter" cast and crew. Millions of fans loved this film and will treasure it forever.

]]> By: Sully https://staging2.theplaylist.net/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-20120316/#comment-80942 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:48:19 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-112172/#comment-80942 Want to know what killed this movie?
The marketing campaign, or lack thereof.
My four year old son could've created a better campaign
than the one they came up with. Next time, make a few stops at some
comic-cons, build a kickass teaser trailer that actually "means" something,
and release the movie during the late spring to early winter season, when
people actually have money and are bored. John Carter came out right
when most people are broke and busy, post Christmas/tax season; the worst
time to try and earn back revenue for a mega buck movie. March is for crappy
forgettable flicks like Ghost Rider, Dare Devil, etc. Epics are meant for summer
or post Thanksgiving.

]]> By: Chris https://staging2.theplaylist.net/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-20120316/#comment-80941 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:48:19 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-112172/#comment-80941 This was a very good movie! Advance promotion was awful. I saw a little something , but it didn't give me a good idea as to what this movie was about. I wasn't familiar with John Carter. Then like an explosion all the news said it was a flop. The flop was Disneys marketing dept! Great casting in all characters. Taylor Kitch is magic! I want more! Please:D

]]> By: Kati https://staging2.theplaylist.net/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-20120316/#comment-80940 Fri, 13 May 2016 12:48:19 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2012/more/uncategorized/fans-petition-for-a-john-carter-sequel-while-disney-tries-to-figure-out-who-to-blame-for-the-movie-112172/#comment-80940 I love John Carter they need to make a sequel I don't want the story to end!

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