John Carter
You’ve probably noticed that Hollywood continues to mine literature, or at least published fiction, for ideas to transition into movies. Although many of our favourite books never seem to make the transition despite there being lots of interest (Ender’s Game comes immediately to mind), there are countless books that actually do become movies.
One of the recent examples is John Carter. Personally I haven’t actually seen the movie as of yet (nor have I actually read any of the books), so I can’t comment as to whether or not the movie actually really follows the story line of any of the books or not. What I can tell you is that the movie John Carter is inspired by the character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs (who’s also responsible for Tarzan).
Given that we’re all about the free fiction here, it’s worth pointing out the series in which John Carter appears is the Barsoom series and the first five books are available as part of Project Gutenberg:
- A Princess of Mars
- The Gods of Mars
- The Warlord of Mars
- Thuvia, Maid of Mars
- The Chessmen of Mars
- The Master Mind of Mars
- The Fighting Man of Mars
- Swords of Mars
- Synthetic Men of Mars
- Llana of Gathol
- John Carter of Mars: John Carter and the Giants of Mars (by John Coleman Burroughs)
- John Carter of Mars: Skeleton Men of Jupiter
March 21st, 2012 at 9:34 pm
[...] wrote a post for Abandoned Towers about John Carter and its source material. Since then, Disney has announced that it is going to be the biggest flop [...]
March 24th, 2012 at 11:40 am
Read the books and loved the movie. I’ve got several posts about the books and a review of the film up on my blog if anyone is interested: More about John Carter