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Author Michael Chabon Tapped For ‘John Carter Of Mars’ Rewrites
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Celebrated author of such books as The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, and The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, Michael Chabon has been hired to help polish up the script for Andrew Stanton‘s John Carter of Mars movie.

The news had been hinted at recently in a Deadline Hollywood report on Chabon’s change of agents, where it listing his partially-used draft of Spider-Man 2 and John Carter as the writer’s works.

Chabon offered up the confirmation via The Amazing Website of Kavalier & Clay:

I’ve been hired to do some revisions to an already strong script by Andrew Stanton and Mark Andrews. I wrote my original screenplay The Martian Agent back in 1995 because I wished I could do [Edgar Rice] Burroughs’s Barsoom. So this is pretty much a dream come true for me.
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Andrew Stanton Talks ‘John Carter Of Mars’
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Wall-E director Andrew Stanton was able to speak to MTV about his much-talked about Disney (not Pixar) project, John Carter of Mars.

He confirmed that the movie was still happening and that it was past the writing stages and into pre-production and is even casting at the moment, though no official names yet.

John Carter of Mars is more about a character than a story, spanning nearly a century and appearing in many books stories and comics. Because of this, Stanton was able to work with the characters and mythology to work his own story. While this gave him a lot of freedom, it was also a big complication, as they had no idea where to go with it at first.

Stanton was able to explain the situation in detail …

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‘John Carter Of Mars’ To Get Fresh New Look
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SciFi spoke to Andrew Stanton — writer/director for such Disney animated favorites as Finding Nemo and Wall-E — about the very longtime-coming film version of John Carter of Mars.

Essentially, we learned that anything you’ve seen in regard to John Carter won’t exist in Stanton’s version. Stanton explained that he would be going mainly with his own vision of the world and that he’s going do do what he “remembers more than what they exactly do” in the books.

Pixar GM Jim Morris said that they’re trying to re-fresh what he felt is a “stale” look of previous renditions of the story.

“Everything that’s been out there has been an attempt to kind of capture this Deco-esque [Frank] Frazetta vision of John Carter, which I think feels old and stale,” he said. “And where Stanton is going–from what we’ve seen so far–is very different than that. And I think that the people who really love the essence of the books will really dig it, but so will audiences in general.”
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