DAC Episode 377 - John Carter (2012)

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A white man with long brown hair dressed in torso-revealing leather armour.

did we learn nothing from zardoz?

I don’t know where to start with 2012’s John Carter. Andrew Stanton’s first foray into live action, adapting a work that inspired most of the science fiction pulp classics of the 20th century, did not go well. Mired in production troubles and studio tensions, John Carter (of Mars???) bombed at the box office and produced a crater in Disney’s finances so deep that entire careers vanished into it.

Adam and Aidan were hoping that John Carter was due for a reappraisal. It was not, unless you’re of the select camp that enjoys a running joke in which Carter is repeatedly called Virginia. Listen below or find us your podcaster of choice.