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If you’re a fan of Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins in a few years you’ll have the privilege of seeing them bring to life one of the greatest romances in pulp adventure fiction. The Disney Studios and Pixar Animation are teaming up to bring Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter and Dejah Thoris to the silver screen in “John Carter of Mars”. Kitsch plays Carter and Collins plays Dejah Thoris.

The John Carter books launched one of science fiction and fantasy’s earliest and most successful franchises. The first book, A Princess of Mars, started out as four novellas published in pulp magazines. Several other books in the series followed by 1924. Burroughs, however, went on to create Tarzan and other characters. Although Tarzan eventually overshadowed John Carter, both characters were drawn into a much larger “world” in which many of his pulp heroes lived. Even Burroughs himself was part of that fictional world.

The Disney/Pixar film is scheduled for release in 2012, although principal photography begins in Utah in November 2009. The intervening time is necessary for all the special effects the live-action movie will require. There has been a lot of John Carter of Mars forum discussion on fan sites around the Web. Many media sites have also covered the impending film’s release, squeezing fan sites about the John Carter of Mars movie out of normal search results.

Although there is much hype and anticipation over the upcoming movie, there are relatively few Web sites (yet) that collect all the John Carter of Mars information in one place. One reason this seems to be the case may be that the Google search algorithm does not pay much attention to hobbyist Web sites. That’s too bad.

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