Honestly, this looks like a lot of fun to me. Does it hew closely to the source material?
Wait--a better question is--
does it hold the spirit of the material in high enough regard?
Possibly.
It's at least obvious now that Stanton is truly is trying to make Barsoom appear as an alien world. (One of the earlier criticsms of the first trailer which looked too much like Utah where it was filmed.) Take the white "ape" it's definitely ape-like, but to make a gorilla with six limbs would be phoning it in, wouldn't it? I think I'm warming to his
day-blinded version.
So far, I'm still excited and I hope it turns out well. I guess I'll know at the end credits on March 9 for sure.
The Michael Whelan covers (which formed my initial impression of Barsoom) frequently featured a blue sky, so I'm not as het up about that detail as some are.
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Looks sweet!
ReplyDeleteWas that Led Zeppelin's Kashmir as the sound track?
I hope that the goal is to make something that would make E.R. Burroughs proud. Although Peter Jackson said he was doing the same thing with the Lord of the Rings....
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