Bryan Cranston plays a father and chemistry teacher that turns to cooking meth to support his family when he receives what he thinks is a terminal cancer diagnosis in AMC’s Breaking Bad, a show that continues to be just about the best thing on television. Are you watching it? Good.
Bryan is playing a civil war Northern Colonel in Andrew Stanton’s (All things Pixar) “John Carter Of Mars”. He’s excited. We’re excited for him. Bryan sat down with the Collider kids to give up some story on at least his particular part in the proceedings.
Collider: You’re going to be in Andrew Stanton’s John Carter of Mars.
Bryan Cranston: Yeah, I am. We already started shooting that. I shot for a week in London a couple weeks ago.
Can you talk about who you play in the film and are you excited to be in this huge movie?
Cranston: Very excited. I liked the script first and foremost. That’s why I went in to meet with Andrew. And then his infectious enthusiasm for the movie and for characters and it just….I caught his bug. And I said, yes, so I’ll be a part of it. I’ll do whatever you want me to do. And so I play, during the Civil War America time….this story takes place part-time Civil War America and Mars, which has no time. So my character is a Northern Colonel who is dogging John Carter to be a part of the government. We need his help. He’s an excellent tracker and marksman and that sort of thing. And in the Arizona Territories, the Apaches are running wild, so I need his help and he won’t do it. He doesn’t want to have anything to do with anything. His family was obliterated during the War. It was horrible and he wants to be a part of no man’s government. So I keep after him and keep after him and track him down and have a conversation with him and have to use some physical force on him and he keeps breaking out and I keep tracking him down. And finally we end up in a cave and in this cave are some magical things that happen. And that transports him and it’s really quite fascinating and I look forward to it.
I’m so excited for this movie. Andrew’s first live-action. You’re on hiatus now and you’re filming…now you just did the one week on John Carter, does that mean you’re wrapped?
Cranston: No, I have 2 more weeks to go. We’ll pick that up in Utah in April.
Hard to imagine how this movie won’t be awesome. “John Carter Of Mars” also stars Mark Strong, William Defoe, James Purefoy, Taylor Kitsch and Samantha Morton among a throng of others. Expect it to be in 3D and expect a release in the summer of 2012.
[UPDATE] Mike from JohnCarterMovie.com has corrected my bold statement that JCOM will be delivered in 3D. This is pure speculation on my part and I have no sources to confirm the truth of this. I’m betting it’ll be 3D but I do not know. Thanks for keeping me straight Mike.
