John carter of mars was easily the best movie of the year it was released. However, it appealed to fans of Burroughs works, and required the viewer to really follow the story line more closely or to already know the basic plot. This was partly (in my view) what made the early 20th century scifi and fantastic fiction appealing to so many readers. The characters and settings were so ‘grand’ that they were effectively impossible to portray visually until effects technology advanced to the current state. If i were stuck on a space station and could only have one ‘vid’, it is a no brainer: John Carter. If i were told i could also have Avatar, I would stick with John Carter–no need for a ‘B’-rated when you already have a best of genre.
John Carter is up for an Oscar in the VFX category!
As you already know the 2nd book is the gods of mars. please consider my request thx Chris Wilson
Hi this is Chris Wilson and i have read and know this series in great detail and would love if i could help create, and or act in a hopeful part 2 of this wonder that you have brought to life. It should of been titled John
carter Warlord of Mars. I liked how the nephew was Edgar, nice touch but not too many people unfortunately havent read his work. Please contact me at egoatman@yahoo.com. Thank You.
sorry Micahel, I added Lynn Collins for favorite face of heroism, so here is my final draft
Voting for the People’s Choice awards has opened today. John Carter has made the nomination lists for Favorite Superhero. Please make a write-in selection for John Carter the film and the actors/actresses that represent the film for the following categories. and vote here http://www.peopleschoice.com/pca/nominations/vote.jsp
Favorite Movie: John Carter
Favorite Movie Actor: Taylor Kitsch
Favorite Face of Heroism: Lynn Collins
Favorite Movie Actress: Lynn Collins
Favorite Movie Icon: Willem Dafoe
Favorite Action Movie: John Carter
Favorite Action Movie Star: Taylor Kitsch
Favorite Movie Super Hero: Taylor Kitsch as John Carter
Favorite Movie Franchise: John Carter
Favorite on Screen Chemistry: Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins as John Carter and Dejah Thoris
Favorite Movie Fan Following: Barsoomians, John Carter
Remember to select atleast one other category besides writing in John carter or your vote will not count
oh and Micahel about the voting, you have to make atleast one selection or it won’t count your John Carter write-in.
Hey Michael can you please post this on your website, voting has begun today and we have 10 days to do this but i believe it’s possible!
Voting for the People’s Choice awards has opened today. John Carter has made the nomination lists for Favorite Superhero. Please make a write-in selection for John Carter the film and the actors/actresses that represent the film for the following categories. and vote here http://www.peopleschoice.com/pca/nominations/vote.jsp
Favorite Movie: John Carter
Favorite Movie Actor: Taylor Kitsch
Favorite Movie Actress: Lynn Collins
Favorite Movie Icon: Willem Dafoe
Favorite Action Movie: John Carter
Favorite Action Movie Star: Taylor Kitsch
Favorite Movie Super Hero: Taylor Kitsch as John Carter
Favorite Movie Franchise: John Carter
Favorite on Screen Chemistry: Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins as John Carter and Dejah Thoris
Favorite Movie Fan Following: Barsoomians, John Carter
Hey Dotar can you please post this on your site. I think this is worth a shot.
Send Letters and E-mails to the People’s Choice Awards(addresses at the bottom) and tell them you want John Carter to make the potential nomination lists for the following movie categories
Favorite Movie: John Carter
Favorite Movie Actor: Taylor Kitsch
Favorite Movie Actress: Lynn Collins
Favorite Movie Icon: Willem Dafoe
Favorite Action Movie: John Carter
Favorite Action Movie Star: Taylor Kitsch
Favorite Ensemble Movie Cast: John Carter- Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Willem Dafoe, Mark Strong, Ciaran Hinds, James Purefoy, Dominic West, and Bryan Cranston
Favorite Movie Super Hero: Taylor Kitsch as John Carter
Favorite Book Adaptation: A Princess of Mars/ John Carter
Favorite Animated Character: Tars Tarkas
Favorite Face of Heroism: Taylor Kitsch as John Carter
Favorite on Screen Romance: Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins as John Carter and Dejah Thoris
Hi Michael:
I know it’s probably late in the game, and I don’t think this is anything spectacular, but I had to do it once I thought of the idea – John Carter battling Oscar statues. Maybe someone with more time (which I know you are running out of) or at least better and quicker in the art skills could illustrate it. Anyhow, yours to use or ignore: http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j136/BobJ_61/JCATGOH.jpg
For one thing the movie should have been John Carter warlord of mars, and sub titled Edgar rice burroughs first book {a princess of mars} this was a well made movie and the story should move on th a second movie. I can help you as i have read all the books multiple times and know exactly how to progress this into a series. please contact me and i will gladly help witrh this project.
Kaor, Dotar Sojat – had to throw that in. Have you seen Orson Scott Card’s review? http://hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/2012-03-15.shtml He knows a great deal about writing stories and crafting characters. The JCM stories by ERB are not at all like what Orson has done in the Ender series. I saw John Carter when I received the DVD/BluRay package (after having read OSC’s review which didn’t influence me) – couldn’t make it to the theatrical release, and Disney pulled the plug way too soon. The movie has some holes in it and differs in many vast ways from the original, but the spirit is good, and it is rather different from what the studios put out nowadays. I did like the way Stanton and crew injected humor – it was not too in your face, and I got it. Many little elements from the original books were also included in subtle ways. One more thing – watch the burgeoning number of positive reviews at Amazon.com – I posted a review June 18 – the review total was 490. Now it is over 700. 86% 4 and 5 stars.
Hello Dotar Sojat – First of all thanks for your delightful blog. Second: Have you seen the recent AV Club write-up for ‘John Carter?’ It’s part of a feature called “My World of Flops.” It’s a long article and very much worth reading. Better yet: the author thinks highly of Taylor Kitsch’s performance, which I do too. Give it a go when you get the chance. Here is the link:
dotar do all the admins have it covered? like do u guys all have designated shifts to recruit these john carter fans every top of the hour. I will volunteer to do it for a few hours a day on the weekdays, thats when i am consistently home. lmk
look at this comment!
Rove McManus?@Rove
Watched the movie John Carter yesterday. Boy, do I feel bad I hadn’t seen it sooner. What an incredible creative vision from @andrewstanton.
and this guy has 335,000 followers! word ouf mouth is spreading like wildfire!
Awesome — wow, wish we’d found that sooner. I have alerted the admins at the group. The bad thing is that there is no archive so you have to catch it when it’s there, once it drops off the page it’s gone forever — missed opportunity. Great catch!
If you refresh the page once every 45 minutes to one hour you see a new set of comments talking about how suprised they were and how good the movie was. I contacted one person who I thought didn’t watch the movie and was bashing it. Just let them know they’re comment was trending on twitter movies so they know you’re real and don’t think you’re an advertiser and invite them to our group. we might have a problem if multiple people are contacting the same person tho so we don’t want to overlap.
Hey Dotar here’s a cool inception style trailer for John Carter
“CelebrityCafe.com just reported JC as the #1 pirated movie for two weeks…beating out the Avengers!”
Thanks for the tip – -just reported it. Appreciate it.
CelebrityCafe.com just reported JC as the #1 pirated movie for two weeks…beating out the Avengers!
Hope you will remove my duplicate comment on Special Report: John Carter, the Flop that Wasn’t a Turkey (Part 3). Sorry for the confusion.
Don
What happened to your link to the “Art of Barsoom”. You had hundreds of pieces of art listed out by artist along with links to the artist’s home page?
thanks
ken
I don’t quite know what to make of this but it is quite rare for a movie to jump over 1000% from one weekend to the next especially when it’s being shown mostly in discout theaters… Something is getting people into the theaters so lets keep getting the word out…
This Week 12
Last Week 34
This weekend $1,325,000
Increase +1,073.8%
Total Gross $70,591,000
Dotar,
I haven’t seen anything on the reception the film is getting in Japan. Do you have anything?
Also, do you know if anyone at Disney is aware of thejohncarterfiles? It would sure educate them.
Thanks for all your work and dedication.
Ken
Hello, my name is Jorge Leon im a student at Polytechnic High school and Mrs.Garland told me that you didnt have an application for smart phones and androids. We can sell you the service of turning your website into an app for a very low price. It will expand your company info, and enable your users too easily access your website through their smart phone in a very convenient view. If you are interested, please contact me through my email (jorge2751@gmail.com) thank you for your time, hope to hear from you soon.
Thank you John Carter Files for the news about our app.
We have another news for you, after the Aplle version we have developed a new, impoved, version for Android.
I’ve been enjoying your site, since I became aware of it, shortly after I posted my piece on the horrible PR debacle preceding the release of John Carter by Disney… and you linked to it.
Thanks for pointing John Carter fans to my comments.
Today, I posted an open letter to Disney’s CEO and it’s been getting some slight traction. Feel free to link to it. DennisMansfield.com
(BTW, I saw the film again this weekend! Might as well put my money where my mouth is! ha)
My deepest thanks to Michael Sellers, Dotar Sojat, and everyone connected with thejohncarterfiles! As an ERB fan since childhood, I really wanted JOHN CARTER to succeed. Although I regard it as an honorable miss, it is nevertheless an honorable effort. Even if it is not the adaptation of A PRINCESS OF MARS that I would have liked to have seen, it certainly deserves a great deal more respect than it has received. Time may cast it in a better light. However, it is extremely unlikely that we will see another big screen version of Barsoom in our lifetimes. In the meantime, this site is going a long way to helping some of understand what happened when JC was released. Even more importantly, it can help us celebrate what is of value in Andrew Stanton’s film.
Once again, you have my thanks!
Bob, I couldn’t agree with you more. I just despair when I think about what’ going on inside the marketing brain trust at Disney. The only thing I can think of is that, being the corporate behemoth they are, they designed everything including this crap well before they began getting the feedback that this (the white ape ad nauseum and no Dejah Thoris anywhere to be seen) was NOT the way to go. I am just stupefied by their seeming indifference to feedback. Unbelievable and incredibly disheartening.
I wrote this after reading the blu-ray release story and seeing the cover art.
This is so F’d up.
That box cover art is more than awful, at this point it has to be willful self destruction to explain the choice of that cover art. Did they learn absolutely frickin’ nothing from their total miss of a promotion for the film’s release. This has great potential for blue-ray/DVD home sales and they re-launch it with this, “everything that was wrong with the movie promotion” but magnified X 10 ! ! For crying out loud, it looks like the cover of a direct to video sequel of Monster, Inc.
Did they not SEE that Lynn Collins was the beating heart of this movie AND pretty damn HOT, so they put this mook, and two stuffed monkeys, on the cover ! I’m writing to Dotar Sojat at thejohncarterfiles dot com to alert him.
Just a note of thanks to everyone involved in this site for their efforts in preserving and sharing the legacy of this great ERB series. And a special thanks to all involved in the production(but NOT the promotion and marketing!!!) of the Disney film.
The books, AND the film, deserve a better public awareness and acceptance than they have received.
Thanks again.
Thanks!
Thank you for all your hard work in putting this web site together. A super job! I’m greatful that people like you exist.
Ken
P.S.
I’m not sure who the hell I should be thanking here — if not Michael, then Dotar Sojat — but the sentiment is the same. Sorry if I got it wrong, Dotar, but whoever’s putting this all together — super job!
Michael-
I want to send you a personal word of thanks for all you’re doing on behalf of us JCM fans. This website, the trailers, your letters, articles, and stories are all really first rate.
The amount of work you put in for us is unbelievable — dont ever think that it’s not appreciated, because it mostly definitely is. Thank you from all of us fans.
You and I have a really similiar background with this ERB material, although I think I’m about 10 years your senior. I read the books when I was a kid and have waited almost 50 years to see John, Dejah, and Tars on screen. I love the interpretation that Stanton delivered us.
Anyhow, I know youre busy so I’ll keep this brief, but thank you so much for all your efforts — you’re doing an amazing job. And don’t lose courage — keep up the good fight. I’m proud that you are leading us.
Mal
great , great . when will john carter return . ????? soon we all hope ?? what will disney do with all the marvel people ???
Hello The JCF, I found this video on YouTube. It is fan-made and it is an amazing rendition to the main theme of the film!
Great job, love the website! I read John Carter in my teens and have waited 35 years for the move. I just loved it and so disappointed with the poor marketing on it.
great . when will they make a SUB – MARINER MOVIE ////???? who has it ???? bill zuschlag
hope this right site JOHN CARTER , SIGN ME UP FOR WEB SITE ETC HOPE THEY MAKE ONE ON sub – mariner marvel now that disney ownes marvel its all up to them now ????? bill zuschlag 3/16/2012 fl .
Hey TJCF, I found this video on YouTube, its fan-made also and its an amazing trailer for the film! Just thought I’d share:
Thank you! It’s really nice to hear that he spoke well of it when you asked him. He emailed and asked if we had made, or could make, any others so we made a second one — dunno if you’ve seen it. It’s called “Heritage”. Not exactly a trailer but around here I think we like it better than the “real” fan trailer …..
We’ll link to your interviews! Thanks for checking in with us. We’ve been known to raise a pint now and then. Have one for us! 😉
Hey guys,
Interviewed Andrew, Taylor, Lynn and Willem for John Carter, and asked Andrew at the end of our meeting if he liked your trailer. He loved it. I’ve put the link above, but here it is again. The four ints are all up on youtube, for movies.ie. We’re based in sunny Dublin.
Cheers,
Paul
thanks so much. If you’re still there — repost your comment on the “what did you think about John Carter” post that I just put up. http://thejohncarterfiles.com/2012/03/what-did-you-think-of-john-carter-join-the-conversation/
I just returned from seeing John Carter, and contrary to the drubbing it’s received, I thought it was thoroughly entertaining, and I’m a 50-something wife and mother— not exactly the film’s demographic.
I can’t understand the venom heaped on this movie, a level of nastiness I haven’t witnessed in a long time. Thanks so much for trying to right this injustice with your wonderful website. Unfortunately, it may not rescue its box office, but hopefully positive word of mouth can give it some deserved dignity.
Congratulation for the amazing job you are doing! You are better than the whole Disney marketing department.
Cross fingers for friday! If it flops it would be very harsh for everyone who cares of this project. 🙁
Michele
HI Michael, I’m at a school, so my aol account is blocked, so I wanted to tell you this before I forget.
Every year Long Beach has this thing called Long Beach reads where the whole city is encouraged to read a new book by various authors. This year’s book is is “Zorro” by Isabel Allende. At first I thought it was like a Zorro documentary, but then I realized that she has just re-told the story of Zorro. I think they picked it because Zorro was a “hero who devoted his life to challenging injustice on two continents.”
What I’m getting at, is have you ever considered writing your documentary in book form? I really have no idea what your John Carter documentary is even about, but it would be cool to get it in book form and then submit it for consideration at Long Beach reads. As long as it has some sort of moral lesson that builds community, or encourages kids to read o something along those lines, I think it can qualify, but I need to find out more. Like you’re not busy enough… but of course I would help you:)
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John carter of mars was easily the best movie of the year it was released. However, it appealed to fans of Burroughs works, and required the viewer to really follow the story line more closely or to already know the basic plot. This was partly (in my view) what made the early 20th century scifi and fantastic fiction appealing to so many readers. The characters and settings were so ‘grand’ that they were effectively impossible to portray visually until effects technology advanced to the current state. If i were stuck on a space station and could only have one ‘vid’, it is a no brainer: John Carter. If i were told i could also have Avatar, I would stick with John Carter–no need for a ‘B’-rated when you already have a best of genre.
John Carter is up for an Oscar in the VFX category!
As you already know the 2nd book is the gods of mars. please consider my request thx Chris Wilson
Hi this is Chris Wilson and i have read and know this series in great detail and would love if i could help create, and or act in a hopeful part 2 of this wonder that you have brought to life. It should of been titled John
carter Warlord of Mars. I liked how the nephew was Edgar, nice touch but not too many people unfortunately havent read his work. Please contact me at egoatman@yahoo.com. Thank You.
sorry Micahel, I added Lynn Collins for favorite face of heroism, so here is my final draft
Voting for the People’s Choice awards has opened today. John Carter has made the nomination lists for Favorite Superhero. Please make a write-in selection for John Carter the film and the actors/actresses that represent the film for the following categories. and vote here http://www.peopleschoice.com/pca/nominations/vote.jsp
Favorite Movie: John Carter
Favorite Movie Actor: Taylor Kitsch
Favorite Face of Heroism: Lynn Collins
Favorite Movie Actress: Lynn Collins
Favorite Movie Icon: Willem Dafoe
Favorite Action Movie: John Carter
Favorite Action Movie Star: Taylor Kitsch
Favorite Movie Super Hero: Taylor Kitsch as John Carter
Favorite Movie Franchise: John Carter
Favorite on Screen Chemistry: Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins as John Carter and Dejah Thoris
Favorite Movie Fan Following: Barsoomians, John Carter
Remember to select atleast one other category besides writing in John carter or your vote will not count
oh and Micahel about the voting, you have to make atleast one selection or it won’t count your John Carter write-in.
Hey Michael can you please post this on your website, voting has begun today and we have 10 days to do this but i believe it’s possible!
Voting for the People’s Choice awards has opened today. John Carter has made the nomination lists for Favorite Superhero. Please make a write-in selection for John Carter the film and the actors/actresses that represent the film for the following categories. and vote here http://www.peopleschoice.com/pca/nominations/vote.jsp
Favorite Movie: John Carter
Favorite Movie Actor: Taylor Kitsch
Favorite Movie Actress: Lynn Collins
Favorite Movie Icon: Willem Dafoe
Favorite Action Movie: John Carter
Favorite Action Movie Star: Taylor Kitsch
Favorite Movie Super Hero: Taylor Kitsch as John Carter
Favorite Movie Franchise: John Carter
Favorite on Screen Chemistry: Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins as John Carter and Dejah Thoris
Favorite Movie Fan Following: Barsoomians, John Carter
Hey Dotar can you please post this on your site. I think this is worth a shot.
Send Letters and E-mails to the People’s Choice Awards(addresses at the bottom) and tell them you want John Carter to make the potential nomination lists for the following movie categories
Favorite Movie: John Carter
Favorite Movie Actor: Taylor Kitsch
Favorite Movie Actress: Lynn Collins
Favorite Movie Icon: Willem Dafoe
Favorite Action Movie: John Carter
Favorite Action Movie Star: Taylor Kitsch
Favorite Ensemble Movie Cast: John Carter- Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Willem Dafoe, Mark Strong, Ciaran Hinds, James Purefoy, Dominic West, and Bryan Cranston
Favorite Movie Super Hero: Taylor Kitsch as John Carter
Favorite Book Adaptation: A Princess of Mars/ John Carter
Favorite Animated Character: Tars Tarkas
Favorite Face of Heroism: Taylor Kitsch as John Carter
Favorite on Screen Romance: Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins as John Carter and Dejah Thoris
Favorite Villain: Mark Strong as Matai Shang
Copy and paste the nominees above and send comments/e-mails here http://show.custhelp.com/app/ask/p/634/session/L3NpZC8zejYqR1U4bA%3D%3D
and send letters to the address at the bottom of this page http://www.peopleschoice.com/pca/terms.jsp
hey i sent you some ideas in reponse to the budget problem from shouamabane3@gmail.com
Hi Michael:
I know it’s probably late in the game, and I don’t think this is anything spectacular, but I had to do it once I thought of the idea – John Carter battling Oscar statues. Maybe someone with more time (which I know you are running out of) or at least better and quicker in the art skills could illustrate it. Anyhow, yours to use or ignore:
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j136/BobJ_61/JCATGOH.jpg
For one thing the movie should have been John Carter warlord of mars, and sub titled Edgar rice burroughs first book {a princess of mars} this was a well made movie and the story should move on th a second movie. I can help you as i have read all the books multiple times and know exactly how to progress this into a series. please contact me and i will gladly help witrh this project.
thank you. Chris Wilson email me at egoantman@yahoo.com
Kaor, Dotar Sojat – had to throw that in. Have you seen Orson Scott Card’s review? http://hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/2012-03-15.shtml He knows a great deal about writing stories and crafting characters. The JCM stories by ERB are not at all like what Orson has done in the Ender series. I saw John Carter when I received the DVD/BluRay package (after having read OSC’s review which didn’t influence me) – couldn’t make it to the theatrical release, and Disney pulled the plug way too soon. The movie has some holes in it and differs in many vast ways from the original, but the spirit is good, and it is rather different from what the studios put out nowadays. I did like the way Stanton and crew injected humor – it was not too in your face, and I got it. Many little elements from the original books were also included in subtle ways. One more thing – watch the burgeoning number of positive reviews at Amazon.com – I posted a review June 18 – the review total was 490. Now it is over 700. 86% 4 and 5 stars.
Hello Dotar Sojat – First of all thanks for your delightful blog. Second: Have you seen the recent AV Club write-up for ‘John Carter?’ It’s part of a feature called “My World of Flops.” It’s a long article and very much worth reading. Better yet: the author thinks highly of Taylor Kitsch’s performance, which I do too. Give it a go when you get the chance. Here is the link:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/thrilling-adventure-tales-case-file-18-john-carter,81503/
Pax.
Hello Dotar Sojat.
Bravo for the site, it’s cool to keep an eye on the franchise.
I’ve made, just for fun, this two mash up trailer, the Avatar teaser with clips of John Carter, and vice versa, and I’d like to show them of course 😀
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx_Dl2An6zw&list=UUT-IoBjJTOuknQJfm6OB2sw&index=2&feature=plcp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFBNr_mgiSE&feature=player_embedded
A bientôt sur Barsoom!
Thanks for the heads up, BobJ — I just posted about it.
Dotar, have you seen this article yet?
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/japanese-scientists-produce-mathematical-model-338582
dotar do all the admins have it covered? like do u guys all have designated shifts to recruit these john carter fans every top of the hour. I will volunteer to do it for a few hours a day on the weekdays, thats when i am consistently home. lmk
look at this comment!
Rove McManus?@Rove
Watched the movie John Carter yesterday. Boy, do I feel bad I hadn’t seen it sooner. What an incredible creative vision from @andrewstanton.
and this guy has 335,000 followers! word ouf mouth is spreading like wildfire!
Shoumabanew wrote
Awesome — wow, wish we’d found that sooner. I have alerted the admins at the group. The bad thing is that there is no archive so you have to catch it when it’s there, once it drops off the page it’s gone forever — missed opportunity. Great catch!
Hey dotar here’s a potential army of john carter fans that would probably love to join our cause and make our group grow exponentially. http://www.flicktweets.com/tweets/show_tweets?title=JOHN%20CARTER%20(2012)
If you refresh the page once every 45 minutes to one hour you see a new set of comments talking about how suprised they were and how good the movie was. I contacted one person who I thought didn’t watch the movie and was bashing it. Just let them know they’re comment was trending on twitter movies so they know you’re real and don’t think you’re an advertiser and invite them to our group. we might have a problem if multiple people are contacting the same person tho so we don’t want to overlap.
Hey Dotar here’s a cool inception style trailer for John Carter
“CelebrityCafe.com just reported JC as the #1 pirated movie for two weeks…beating out the Avengers!”
Thanks for the tip – -just reported it. Appreciate it.
CelebrityCafe.com just reported JC as the #1 pirated movie for two weeks…beating out the Avengers!
Hope you will remove my duplicate comment on Special Report: John Carter, the Flop that Wasn’t a Turkey (Part 3). Sorry for the confusion.
Don
What happened to your link to the “Art of Barsoom”. You had hundreds of pieces of art listed out by artist along with links to the artist’s home page?
thanks
ken
I don’t quite know what to make of this but it is quite rare for a movie to jump over 1000% from one weekend to the next especially when it’s being shown mostly in discout theaters… Something is getting people into the theaters so lets keep getting the word out…
This Week 12
Last Week 34
This weekend $1,325,000
Increase +1,073.8%
Total Gross $70,591,000
Dotar,
I haven’t seen anything on the reception the film is getting in Japan. Do you have anything?
Also, do you know if anyone at Disney is aware of thejohncarterfiles? It would sure educate them.
Thanks for all your work and dedication.
Ken
Hello, my name is Jorge Leon im a student at Polytechnic High school and Mrs.Garland told me that you didnt have an application for smart phones and androids. We can sell you the service of turning your website into an app for a very low price. It will expand your company info, and enable your users too easily access your website through their smart phone in a very convenient view. If you are interested, please contact me through my email (jorge2751@gmail.com) thank you for your time, hope to hear from you soon.
Thank you John Carter Files for the news about our app.
We have another news for you, after the Aplle version we have developed a new, impoved, version for Android.
Here the lite, free, version
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bms.survival.lite&hl=it
And here the full version
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bms.walkonmars&feature=more_from_developer#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwMiwiYm1zLndhbGtvbm1hcnMiXQ..
I’ve been enjoying your site, since I became aware of it, shortly after I posted my piece on the horrible PR debacle preceding the release of John Carter by Disney… and you linked to it.
Thanks for pointing John Carter fans to my comments.
Today, I posted an open letter to Disney’s CEO and it’s been getting some slight traction. Feel free to link to it. DennisMansfield.com
(BTW, I saw the film again this weekend! Might as well put my money where my mouth is! ha)
My deepest thanks to Michael Sellers, Dotar Sojat, and everyone connected with thejohncarterfiles! As an ERB fan since childhood, I really wanted JOHN CARTER to succeed. Although I regard it as an honorable miss, it is nevertheless an honorable effort. Even if it is not the adaptation of A PRINCESS OF MARS that I would have liked to have seen, it certainly deserves a great deal more respect than it has received. Time may cast it in a better light. However, it is extremely unlikely that we will see another big screen version of Barsoom in our lifetimes. In the meantime, this site is going a long way to helping some of understand what happened when JC was released. Even more importantly, it can help us celebrate what is of value in Andrew Stanton’s film.
Once again, you have my thanks!
Bob, I couldn’t agree with you more. I just despair when I think about what’ going on inside the marketing brain trust at Disney. The only thing I can think of is that, being the corporate behemoth they are, they designed everything including this crap well before they began getting the feedback that this (the white ape ad nauseum and no Dejah Thoris anywhere to be seen) was NOT the way to go. I am just stupefied by their seeming indifference to feedback. Unbelievable and incredibly disheartening.
I wrote this after reading the blu-ray release story and seeing the cover art.
This is so F’d up.
That box cover art is more than awful, at this point it has to be willful self destruction to explain the choice of that cover art. Did they learn absolutely frickin’ nothing from their total miss of a promotion for the film’s release. This has great potential for blue-ray/DVD home sales and they re-launch it with this, “everything that was wrong with the movie promotion” but magnified X 10 ! ! For crying out loud, it looks like the cover of a direct to video sequel of Monster, Inc.
Did they not SEE that Lynn Collins was the beating heart of this movie AND pretty damn HOT, so they put this mook, and two stuffed monkeys, on the cover ! I’m writing to Dotar Sojat at thejohncarterfiles dot com to alert him.
Just a note of thanks to everyone involved in this site for their efforts in preserving and sharing the legacy of this great ERB series. And a special thanks to all involved in the production(but NOT the promotion and marketing!!!) of the Disney film.
The books, AND the film, deserve a better public awareness and acceptance than they have received.
Thanks again.
Thanks!
Thank you for all your hard work in putting this web site together. A super job! I’m greatful that people like you exist.
Ken
P.S.
I’m not sure who the hell I should be thanking here — if not Michael, then Dotar Sojat — but the sentiment is the same. Sorry if I got it wrong, Dotar, but whoever’s putting this all together — super job!
Michael-
I want to send you a personal word of thanks for all you’re doing on behalf of us JCM fans. This website, the trailers, your letters, articles, and stories are all really first rate.
The amount of work you put in for us is unbelievable — dont ever think that it’s not appreciated, because it mostly definitely is. Thank you from all of us fans.
You and I have a really similiar background with this ERB material, although I think I’m about 10 years your senior. I read the books when I was a kid and have waited almost 50 years to see John, Dejah, and Tars on screen. I love the interpretation that Stanton delivered us.
Anyhow, I know youre busy so I’ll keep this brief, but thank you so much for all your efforts — you’re doing an amazing job. And don’t lose courage — keep up the good fight. I’m proud that you are leading us.
Mal
great , great . when will john carter return . ????? soon we all hope ?? what will disney do with all the marvel people ???
Hello The JCF, I found this video on YouTube. It is fan-made and it is an amazing rendition to the main theme of the film!
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVbPmNvpqPU&w=560&h=315%5D
Great job, love the website! I read John Carter in my teens and have waited 35 years for the move. I just loved it and so disappointed with the poor marketing on it.
I started this Mindmap and added your video to it but also welcome your contributions or others: http://www.mindmeister.com/maps/show/146161063
I added this site to the Mindmap.
– Thanks! Martin
great . when will they make a SUB – MARINER MOVIE ////???? who has it ???? bill zuschlag
hope this right site JOHN CARTER , SIGN ME UP FOR WEB SITE ETC HOPE THEY MAKE ONE ON sub – mariner marvel now that disney ownes marvel its all up to them now ????? bill zuschlag 3/16/2012 fl .
Hey TJCF, I found this video on YouTube, its fan-made also and its an amazing trailer for the film! Just thought I’d share:
Thank you! It’s really nice to hear that he spoke well of it when you asked him. He emailed and asked if we had made, or could make, any others so we made a second one — dunno if you’ve seen it. It’s called “Heritage”. Not exactly a trailer but around here I think we like it better than the “real” fan trailer …..
We’ll link to your interviews! Thanks for checking in with us. We’ve been known to raise a pint now and then. Have one for us! 😉
Hey guys,
Interviewed Andrew, Taylor, Lynn and Willem for John Carter, and asked Andrew at the end of our meeting if he liked your trailer. He loved it. I’ve put the link above, but here it is again. The four ints are all up on youtube, for movies.ie. We’re based in sunny Dublin.
Cheers,
Paul
thanks so much. If you’re still there — repost your comment on the “what did you think about John Carter” post that I just put up.
http://thejohncarterfiles.com/2012/03/what-did-you-think-of-john-carter-join-the-conversation/I just returned from seeing John Carter, and contrary to the drubbing it’s received, I thought it was thoroughly entertaining, and I’m a 50-something wife and mother— not exactly the film’s demographic.
I can’t understand the venom heaped on this movie, a level of nastiness I haven’t witnessed in a long time. Thanks so much for trying to right this injustice with your wonderful website. Unfortunately, it may not rescue its box office, but hopefully positive word of mouth can give it some deserved dignity.
Congratulation for the amazing job you are doing! You are better than the whole Disney marketing department.
Cross fingers for friday! If it flops it would be very harsh for everyone who cares of this project. 🙁
Michele
HI Michael, I’m at a school, so my aol account is blocked, so I wanted to tell you this before I forget.
first here is a website
http://www.lbplfoundation.org/programs_lbrob.html
Every year Long Beach has this thing called Long Beach reads where the whole city is encouraged to read a new book by various authors. This year’s book is is “Zorro” by Isabel Allende. At first I thought it was like a Zorro documentary, but then I realized that she has just re-told the story of Zorro. I think they picked it because Zorro was a “hero who devoted his life to challenging injustice on two continents.”
What I’m getting at, is have you ever considered writing your documentary in book form? I really have no idea what your John Carter documentary is even about, but it would be cool to get it in book form and then submit it for consideration at Long Beach reads. As long as it has some sort of moral lesson that builds community, or encourages kids to read o something along those lines, I think it can qualify, but I need to find out more. Like you’re not busy enough… but of course I would help you:)
Just a thought