Wednesday, 4 August 2021

ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – JOHN CARTER (2012)

 

“John Carter” is a Sci-Fi, action adventure, screenplay written by Andrew Stanton, Mark Andrews and Michael Chabon, based on the story “A Princess of Mars” by Edgar Rice Burroughs and Directed by Andrew Stanton.

 

Despite trying to live a normal life in 1868, Civil War veteran John Carter (Taylor Kitsch) is a fleeing both Indian fighters and the Army and is forced to take refuge when the shooting starts.

Inside the cave a figure suddenly materializes and tries to kill him but John turns the tables on him and as he lies dying on the ground he notices a glowing medallion in his hand and when Carter touches it and repeats the dying figures muttered last word, Barsoom, he finds himself transported to Mars and encounters many strange, often hostile creatures and a Princess in desperate need of a saviour.

 

Lynn Collins plays the princess, and the star-studded supporting cast includes Samantha Morton, Willem Dafoe, Thomas Haden Church, Mark Strong, Ciarán Hinds, Dominic West, James Purefoy and Bryan Cranston, to name but a few.

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