Oh Hai John Carter
Well, the full John Carter trailer came out last night. As prophesied, I’m not wearing pants, but actually I liked yesterday’s shorter trailer better. I think it’s because all the additional footage seems to be of CG mass battle scenes, which gives the whole thing an unfortunate Attack of the Clones-type feel. However, I’m not worried. You tell me the guy who directed Wall-E is making a live-action, big-budget version of a classic Edgar Rice Burroughs book, and it doesn’t matter what the trailers look like, I’ll put all my money on it being great. So Disney wants to promote the film as an action-packed blockbuster. Go figure. If Disney lets director Andrew Stanton do his thing — and after the commercial and critical success of Wall-E, why wouldn’t they? — I’m betting we’ll get a story at least as awesome as the action. (Via IGN)
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.