Everything Revealed Regarding John Carter 2's Story
John Carter 2 would have been titled Gods of Mars, Andrew Stanton revealed (via Collider). Lynn Collins' Dejah would have spoken the prologue, same as Willem Dafoe's Tars in the first movie. Her story starts with her telling her child Carthoris the events of the first movie, believing he will never know his father John Carter.
Not too long later, Ciarán Hinds' Tardos Mors picks up the youngster from her and assures her he will put him to bed. But he turns out to be Matai Shang (Mark Strong) in one of his shapeshifting incarnations, who abducts the infant and vanishes. With this, the opening credits of the movie start rolling and it starts where the first movie stopped—John Carter's trip back to Barsoom.
Everything Made Known About John Carter 3's Story
John Carter 3, Warlord of Mars, chronicles Carter's battle against time to locate the Therns desiring to wipe out the entire planet. The Therns employ their shapeshifting powers to pass for leaders of Martian species and control them into combat, therefore buying time. Dejah develops a tool to find the Therns in their shapeshifting disguises, but the Therns keep one step ahead and destroy her invention. Not long later, they also murder John Carter from Taylor Kitsch; but, they have no idea he is merely a replica of the original Carter waking up on Earth.
Following the Thern trial, Carter and his family travel to the top of the earth carrying their sole remaining Thern detector while the specter of a World War looms. Edgar helps Carter return to Mars after saving him from Thern Pinkertons with his shotgun back on Earth. Following the Thern trial, Carter and his family travel their sole remaining Thern detector to the top of the planet while the specter of a planet War looms. John then meets Matai and kills him to finally save the earth and rightly take on the title Warlord of Mars.
John Carter: An Interpretive Guide
Though it was far from the first effort at converting the sci-fi property into a film, Disney finally adapted John Carter for the big screen in 2012. Disney's John Carter film adapts Edgar Rice Burroughs' pulpy Sci-fi novel, A Princess of Mars under Toy Story's Andrew Stanton's direction. The film does an amazing job creating a rich, mythology-fueled interplanetary world in which a somber cosmic battle serves as the backdrop for love developments and ambitious CGI-fueled combat scenes.
John Carter mostly revolves on a titular Civil War veteran who finds himself on Mars without explanation. He soon discovers unusual species and also finds he has the power to defy Mars' gravity and launch massive leaps in the air as he explores the barren ground of the planet. For at least two additional sequels, the original Edgar Rice books provide enough of subject material; the 2012 film concluded with an interesting cliffhanger. Though Andrew Stanton intended a John Carter trilogy, the follow-ups never saw the light of day. Considering its possible scalability, one wonders what went wrong with Disney's John Carter.
The Reason John Carter's Sequels Never Happened
John Carter failed at the box office, so the sequels never materialized. With a production budget of $307 million, which was somewhat costly compared to its $281 million worldwide collecting (via The Wrap), before tax rebates and marketing expenses. Later, Walt Disney Co. even said—via LA Times—that it predicted a loss of $200 million on the movie, making John Carter a classic big-budget box office catastrophe like Water World. After
Though their end is sad in every respect, John Carter 2 and 3 also provide a lesson on how apparently little adjustments in a movie's marketing and brand could cost a lot. Disney lost the rights to the franchise in 2014; all hope for the sequels vanished and Stanton's brilliant ideas for them stayed dormant. Although the demise of John Carter 2 and 3 is sad in every respect, it also teaches us how many losses may result from apparently little changes in the marketing and brand of a movie.
Disney intends to relaunch John Carter.
Though John Carter was a bomb when it came out back in 2012, many critics and audiences have reevaluated it in the years afterward. Although it still has certain problems, generally the agreement is that it did not merit to be the failure it was. Disney apparently observed this if reports are to be taken at face value; in 2023 there were whispers that the House of Mouse was intending to revive John Carter with another attempt to make Edgar Rice Burrows's martian Sci-fi adventure bankable.
Though various sources have mentioned Disney considering a John Carter relaunch in the future, the studio has not released any official comments. Still, considering the popularity of the book, it's not too far-fetched to consider Disney would choose to go back over the original material. It wouldn't be the first time a studio, and the live-action remake loving Disney in particular, have looked to an earlier intellectual property for a new project — a notable recent example being the Disney+ Percy Jackson series.
John Carter: An Interpretive Legacy of Disaster
Though it nearly was the first feature-length animated film ever, surpassing Snow White, John Carter has a reputation as a Disney box-office flop. Inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars, Disney's John Carter vividly depicts the Barsoom trilogy by author. American Confederate Civil War captain John Carter quickly gets caught in the internal power conflicts of Mars after unintentionally sending himself there. Carter battles to reach peace on the far-off world known by the locals as Barsoom using the enhanced strength and speed granted by Mars' atmosphere.
Though John Carter's legacy is sadly one of calamity, fans can discover more about the film as it marks its tenth anniversary of release. Though its performance could not equal its original excitement, the film enjoyed a great start.
