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"Something new can come into this world" | John Carter (2012)
Mention the name Edgar Rice Burroughs to many people and they’ll
immediately recognise him as the creator of Tarzan, the popular pulp
hero of novels and film who endured throughout the 20th
century as one of the world’s most popular fictional characters. Less
well known that Tarzan, however, is John Carter. This Virginian Civil
War veteran travelled to the planet Mars in a string of pulp adventures,
all written by Burroughs.
While the Tarzan books were adapted to cinema as early as 1918 (in Tarzan of the Apes and The Romance of Tarzan),
John Carter’s road to the cinema took almost exactly 100 years, three
movie studios, six directors and countless writers, artists and
designers along the way.
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By Mention the name Edgar Rice Burroughs to many people and they’ll
immediately recognise him as the creator of Tarzan, the popular pulp
hero of novels and film who endured throughout the 20th
century as one of the world’s most popular fictional characters. Less
well known that Tarzan, however, is John Carter. This Virginian Civil
War veteran travelled to the planet Mars in a string of pulp adventures,
all written by Burroughs.
While the Tarzan books were adapted to cinema as early as 1918 (in Tarzan of the Apes and The Romance of Tarzan),
John Carter’s road to the cinema took almost exactly 100 years, three
movie studios, six directors and countless writers, artists and
designers along the way.