Two More JOHN CARTER Films being Prepped by Andrew Stanton
Pixar director Andrew Stanton has yet to see his first live-action film John Carter released in theaters. But, regardless of not knowing how well the movie is going to do isn't stopping him from moving forward on the development of the two more sequels. Stanton revealed in a recent interview that he is laying the groundwork for the two more films, allowing him to adapt the first three novels of the Edgar Rice Burroughs sci-fi series.
In the interview Stanton also reveals that he would like to do more than three John Carter movies. If possible, he wants to adapt all eleven of them and more!
We bought the rights to the first three books when we first started. I thought, let’s set it off right because you never get time back.
The worse case scenario is that you’ll plan for more but only make one. But what I’d hate is that you’d plan for one with no preparation for the others, because it’ll show. It’ll really bite you in the back end.
I never expected anyone to say we’d definitely do more than one. It’s a huge risk for them… and It’s a huge chunk of change to make any of these movies, something this big. So it made complete sense to me, from their side of the fence, to wait until the movie’s out.
So if the worst is that it was just a writing exercise for me to plan the others and then I never get to do them, I don’t think I’ll have any regrets. So we’ve been planning out all three all along, just on the chance that they do go ahead.
My fan wish is that we’ll go to all eleven stories and make more.
It will be interesting to see how the first movie does. As much as I want it to be a great film, and as much as I want it to succeed, there's a very strong chance that this big budget production is going to bomb at the box office and be a huge disappointment. There's actually talk on the studio lot that in order for a sequel to happen, this movie need to make $700 million dollars, and that's not an easy task. I'm not sure if this film will be able to pull that off, especially with the lack of excitement I'm seeing for it.
John Carter hits theaters March 9th, 2012. Do you think the film will succeed enough to get a sequel?