Walt Disney Pictures’ “John Carter of Mars” has started shooting. Press release from the Mouse House below. WALT DISNEY PICTURES’ “JOHN CARTER OF MARS” BEGINS PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY IN LONDON BURBANK, Calif. (January 15, 2010) – Principal photography is underway in London for...

Rabid fans of AMC’s Breaking Bad, starring Bryan Cranston as a father who learns he has lung cancer and decides to provide for his family after his possible death by manufacturing crystal meth (he’s a chemistry teacher by day), will be thrilled and breathless after reading this sentence to...

Mark Strong is an actor I really like. He’s been great in everything I’ve seen him in lately (Sherlock Holmes, RockNRolla) and he’s now about to play Matai Shang in “John Carter Of Mars” written and directed by Andrew Stanton, the incredibly talented writer of “Wall-E”,...

You can add three more names to Disney’s upcoming “John Carter of Mars” in Thomas Haden Church, James Purefoy and Mark Strong. The trio join a cast that already includes leads Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins. THR says Church, Sandman in “Spider-Man 3″, will be playing Tal...

Disney’s live-action adaptation of “John Carter of Mars” continues to roll on for a 2010 start date, with three more castmembers joining the burgeoning production, to be based on the fictional works of Edgar Rice Burroughs. With two American actors already cast in the leads, and another...

Andrew Stanton’s live-action version of “John Carter of Mars” landed its leading man and leading lady a while ago, and now it’s landed its leading Martian. The Hollywood Reporter reports that Willem Dafoe (the Green Goblin from “Spider-Man” himself) will be slipping...

On the heels of news that Disney’s “John Carter of Mars” has landed its leading man and lady (details here), comes news from former Spider-Man foe Thomas Haden Church himself that he’s joined the cast of the would-be major summer spectacle himself. In an interview with Reel Talk...

Looks like Disney has landed their John Carter and his love interest, Dejah Thoris, and they both happen to have just co-starred in this summer’s “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” together. Though the two never shared a scene in the entire movie, or indeed knew of each other’s existence,...

Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer prize winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, the stellar The Yiddish Policemen’s Union and the book I am reading as we speak, Gentlemen of the Road, has been signed on to write/re-write “John Carter of Mars”. What is John Carter...