Film Background
Academy Award winning filmmaker, Andrew Stanton, brings us “John Carter”, an epic action-adventure set on the mysterious planet of Barsoom (Mars). Based on the classic novel by Edgar Rice Burroghs, which celebrates its centenary this year, the film tells the story of a beleagured military captain, John Carter who is inexplicably transported to Mars and where he finds himself caught in the middle of a violent conflict between the planet’s inhabitants, a race of 12 foot tall creatures.