re: Biggest tragedy of John Carter

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Very good movie. Not handled very well by the director (Andrew Stanton) - dude had done an excellent job with the Pixar stuff he had done, but totally blew up the budget with reshoots and such with his FIRST foray into live action. He handled the marketing as well . . . and botched it. Pulled "from Mars" from the title too.

Disney trusted the guy, from his Pixar work, and gave him too long a rope. They should have stopped him, made him work within his means.

It did finally make enough to cover its production costs (250 million, mainly from overseas), and maybe made enough from other sales to maybe cover the marketing costs (100 million) as well. So, it wasn't the failure everyone made it out to be.

Sucks there will be no sequel. I read from some of the actors how it was supposed to be great. The guy that played in Rome, was supposed to have a much larger storyline in the next one. In the books, he is John Carter's best friend

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All this but the major flaw of marketing that movie was: THE ASININE ASSUMPTION THAT EVERYONE IN AMERICA HAD READ THE BOOKS AND KNEW WHO JOHN CARTER WAS!

I never read the books, had never heard of John Carter, and when i saw the trailer thought "why is that 19th century dude suddenly shirtless in the desert? Is that a dog or a giant lizard? why are these 4-armed people speaking english?

They didnt even show the white apes until a week or two before the movie opened so they werent in the original trailers.