John Carter Producer offers clearest explanation yet of actual budget

His is a story that ushered in the modern age of science fiction, inspiring a century of authors and sparking the imaginations that launched “Star Wars” and “Avatar” into the cultural canon. But it’s only now, a century after Edgar Rice Burroughs penned his first excursion to the red planet, that John Carter’s adventures on Mars are being presented on the big screen.

And to read the rumors surrounding the film’s four years in production, the story of how the epic Disney movie got made seems nearly as legendary a tale.

“It’s frustrating, because it’s wrong,” Lindsey Collins, one of the film’s co-producers, says of years of trade reports that the film, the first live-action effort from Oscar-winning “WALL-E” director Andrew Stanton, was a bloated, over-budget mess.

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