John Carter

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00:00 Introduction
00:25 What is John Carter?
01:20 Andrew Stanton and Pixar’s “involvement”
02:00 First part of a potential franchise
02:30 Talking about the footage
04:30 The White Ape sequence
05:25 Shooting in the deserts of Utah rather than green screen stages
06:00 Performance Capture for the Martians will actually just be reference for “Animation”
06:45 Drawings of John Carter from the filmmakers/screenwriters childhoods
07:55 Not being 100% faithful to the books
08:30 Giving depth to the simple archetype characters
09:20 The uber realism environment vs. big fantastical
10:00 Almost steampunk-like props and environments
10:30 Casting attractive non-star male and female leads
11:10 Reaction to the teaser trailer
11:35 Sci-fi that doesn’t look like its sci-fi, and changing the title from “John Carter of Mars” to “John Carter”
12:30 What the teaser should have been, and how they should promote the film
14:00 They need to sell the book’s legacy, or the movie might feel derivative
14:45 Will be released in 3D, a completely different post-3D process
15:50 Animation and CG usually looks fantastic in 3D
16:40 Quint expresses doubts about the film in his bottom line reaction
17:20 Peter has mixed feelings, was amazed by the White Ape sequence, but didn’t see enough
18:15 Frosty was more excited seeing the Concept art than he was the footage, agreed that we didn’t see enough
18:55 Trailer song: Peter Gabriel covering Arcade Fire
19:20 Andrew Stanton is an absolute movie nerd
20:00 Stanton really cares about the property, this is his passion project