'John Carter 2'

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Originally Posted by Zivouhr

I can imagine in the distant future, 50 years from now, someone with the rights will reboot the entire John Carter series written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, who inspired George Lucas with Star Wars in a few ways. Then again, maybe not. It's been awhile and the author had some controversy about his beliefs.

(When HP Lovecraft works get adapted, and Fantastic Beasts 3 got greenlit, I get the impression that Hollywood isn't really broken up over the beliefs of authors. )

I remember thar being flogged as a chief reason why JCarter bombed, because audiences saw it as ironically "derivative" of Star Wars and Avatar. That still doesn't seem like a reason to me as people love, or at least back then still loved, Star Wars and Avatar was a runaway hit. Even if JCarter were derivative of these movies it would still be different enough, and competently made, to slake the thirst for more SW and Avatar?

Would this have benefitted from one of those vintage "In a world..." type trailers? That could have gotten everyone up on the premise, without spoiling the plot.

Shoot, just marketing it as "The Outlaw Josey Wales...in spaaaaace" seems like it would have crushed the sad ad campaign that the movie had. A Clint Eastwood cameo would have been tight