Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Disney/Pixar Making New Mars Movie

Edgar Rice Burroughs' character, John Carter of Mars, is going to be turned in to a Disney/Pixar movie sometime in the next four or five years. ERB was a prominent writer during the early twentieth century. The storyline basically is that John Carter, who is immortal, "astrally projects" himself to Mars where he the Martians see him as a superhero. Pixar movies are usually pretty well done, which means when this eventually comes out Mars will probably be huge in popular culture (just like clown fish following Finding Nemo). While this will lead to a (brief) boom in interest surrounding Mars, it would be unfortunate is the public gets filled with misconceptions and inaccurate facts about the planet.

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