{"id":33820,"date":"2014-06-02T07:49:50","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T11:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=33820"},"modified":"2021-02-05T10:27:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T15:27:35","slug":"taylor-kitsch-states-john-carter-sequel-script-was-fucking-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/06\/02\/taylor-kitsch-states-john-carter-sequel-script-was-fucking-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Kitsch States JOHN CARTER Sequel Script Was “Fucking Awesome”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It is no secret that Disney was hoping that 2012’s John Carter<\/strong> was going to be the start of franchise for the studio. Writer\/director Andrew Stanton was drawing on the first of a series of pulp novels from Edgar Rice Burroughs and there was plenty more source material to be mined. Stanton even got so far as to working on a screenplay for a second film. But poor marketing of the film led to poor box office – a plethora of luke-warm reviews at best certainly didn’t help either – and ultimately, Disney took a $200 markdown on the project, definitely killing any hopes for a sequel. (Michael D. Seller’s great and frankly damning book John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood<\/a><\/em>charts how the film’s chance of success was severely undermined by a complete failure of Disney’s marketing department.)<\/p>\n

But what would have happened if the film had done well enough to warrant execs giving Stanton the go-ahead for a sequel?<\/p>\n

Well John Carter<\/strong> star Taylor Kitsch has an idea as to what a second film would have been like. Speaking with Variety<\/a> about appearing in the indie drama The Normal Heart<\/strong>, which opened last weekend, as well as an upcoming HBO project, talking turned to what a sequel to what is now considered one of Disney’s most notorious flops, at least until The Lone Ranger<\/strong> came along the following year, would have been like.<\/p>\n

I know the second script was fucking awesome. We had to plant a grounding, so we could really take off in the second one. The second one was even more emotionally taxing, which was awesome.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For its flaws, though admittedly I didn’t see as many as some who seemed to be sharpening their axes for the film long before it was actually in theaters, I did like John Carter<\/strong> and thought that Stanton had delivered a film that felt original, even when the pulp novel source material had been picked over for ideas by other writers and filmmakers for decades. Stanton certainly had a love for the character and the world that Burroughs had created around him and I was certainly game to see more of it explored cinematically. Sadly, it looks as if that door is closed forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A pity we’ll never get to see it.<\/div>\n

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