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by Steve Gibson, Mar 20, 2008 6:50pm PDT

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WOOT! Pixar making John Carter of Mars live action trilogy!

http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/jim_hill/archive/2008/03/17/as-disney-gets-nervous-about-narnia-pixar-now-sets-its-sights-on-mars.aspx

I had heard rumors, but this sounds more concrete

Mar 20, 2008 10:37pm PDT

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  pixar... live action... wut : pyide
  - what a horrible idea... but if you could get pixar to due a hard R version of John Carter of Mars in CG i... : GloriousCow
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  im too tired to make all the connections there, can you tell me why this is awesome please? I see the pi... : Lightzout
  - its a really fantastic story, and has a sentimental value for all of us who read it when we were 12 years... : Flynn
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  Why is Disney getting cold feet about Narnia? The second movies hasn't even come out, and the first one ... : deathofrats
  - They're not. The third film is already in pre-production with a cast and a new director. : K1Bond007
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  It'll be interesting to see how Pixar's foray into live-action films goes. After all, their filmmaking st... : sgtsanity
  - I would imagine they would do a lot of animatics work before the filming (as in, watch the animated versi... : maddy
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    lol whut? You think David Fincher is the only director that does multiple retakes? Read about Hitchcock... : aethyr
    - Not to mention Kubrick, but I picked Fincher specifically because he's contemporary and very exacting to ... : sgtsanity
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  This seems... strange? I don't get the Disney worries about Narnia at this point; that seems premature to... : maddy
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    I've never even heard of this John Carter of Mars before this thread : RikiTiki2
    - my dad used to read them to me as bedtime stories. :( : GloriousCow
- I am excited for 1906. I don't think it makes sense to say that it is a 'bad idea'. They are a movie stud... : prince cinnamon boots
- These live action films are going to be a very big deal for Pixar. Pixar been championing animation as a... : Kentor
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  I don't think this is a good idea for Pixar. : K1Bond007
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    Can you elaborate? : prince cinnamon boots
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      Well Pixar is an Animation Studio. They've got a talented bunch on deck so I won't say this isn't somethi... : K1Bond007
      
      I'm thinking only a few people (the very top) of Pixar would be involved, since their animators won't hav... : RikiTiki2
      
      But so far all of their movies have been well made in *addition* to great animation. : Magus
      
      Yeah but they make like 4 movies at once, animated ones, live action ones, the more the better. : prince cinnamon boots
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  Narnia 1 did $300 mil in the box office, no reason for Disney not to make the rest. : Magus
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    Narnia 1's also the most well known of all the stories. the rest are like footnotes compared to that one : RikiTiki2
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      they better make dawn treader. motherfucking reepicheep
      
      Mar 21, 2008 1:33am PDT
      
      they better make dawn treader. motherfucking reepicheep : GloriousCow
- Burroughs = Awesome Pixar live action = WTBBQ'D KITTENS! : locater16