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Civil War veteran fights alien creatures on Mars in epic sci-fi flick based on novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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It's one of the most expensive movies ever made costing a -- 250 million dollars.
Disney's John Carter takes a 100 year old story to another world -- card.
From Virginia.
-- the scifi fantasy follow the civil war veteran who gets mysteriously transported to Mars and thrust into a brewing war.
For -- star bringing the tale to life was a daunting task.
I love that rigorous -- was -- -- -- -- time -- that you know so much of his writing is still applicable today.
I'm I think no one's gonna put more pressure than myself to do justice.
-- people.
Didn't you making his first live action feature after -- Finding Nemo and Wally.
Director Andrew Staten was at home with all the CGI animation there are more animated shots in this movie than the -- -- -- world -- so it was basically making an animated movie -- live action.
Reactors making twelve foot high four armed aliens look believable took some imagination and a little help from the voice talent.
It's typical in the sense of their start there are tapes -- on your acting and nothing.
But before we do those takes -- get to work with a Willem Dafoe for train -- stargazers and Morton and -- Thomas Haden Church yet so I you know I had the pleasure of working with those guys to when they're bringing those characters to life so.
There's a lot of -- to -- off those.
And creating a realistic red planet was made easier with the help of technology we now have Mars rovers that are on the planet taking photographs you can actually Google Mars and see what it looks like.
From any iPhone.
And so we had very accurate views of what wow it really looks like a sort of southern west southwest kind of you know desert it looks like an -- oceans used to be there and they've gone away.
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Adam Housley Fox News.
