As previously mentioned, February is quite the month for back-and-forth travel from the East to West Coast! Good thing we love flying with our pals Virgin America! After our This Means War premiere with Twentieth Century Fox, we'll be working with Team Disneyfor the epic premiere of John Carter.
We have to say, we weren't 100% familiar with the book series until recently, as we weren't big sci-fi buffs growing up.. However, we've come to find that this 100 year old book by Edgar Rice Burroughs is all the rage! Where have we been!?
The films stars the uber-sexy Taylor Kitsch, Mark Strong, Bryan Cranston and Dominic West (both Golden Globe nominees this year!), Willem Dafoe, and Thomas Haden Church. Here's a little background info, right from the horse's mouth (Kitsch's figuratively speaking):
“… Carter is a man who has lost everything he ever cared about. He comes back from the Civil War to find his wife and child dead. He basically goes into this recluse mode of living and is driven to mine for gold. It’s like a Band-Aid solution — he’s covering up what he hasn’t dealt with, the guilt and the loss of his family, whom he went to war to protect. He has a fear of taking responsibility again and that’s what he’s fighting through the whole movie. He lands in the Civil War [on Mars] between Helium and Zodanga. He’s on Mars but their conflict is incredibly relatable for him, so he just wants nothing to do with it…”
How does he land on Mars, you ask? We're not entirely sure, but that's why you should go see the film! What's not to love? Creepy things, a sexy strong main character, and mesmerizing special effects!
Speaking of creepy things... we found a still of this little guy, Woola. How adorable!
“… [Also] I’m telling you, [the Martian dog] Woola will steal this movie… He’s loud and awkward, like a puppy in a sense. If anyone has an animal or has had an animal growing up, they know that there are so many things that you do with an animal that you don’t do in a relationship with another human. Eventually, John lets his guard down quite a bit and I love that because it makes those moments with Woola quite great.”
We're very excited to be working on this project and getting our sci-fi education on point! Check out the trailer here and join in the excitement!
xxPPR
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In the series of novels, John Carter during the war, is thrown into an unexplored cave by a cannonball blast and rendered unconscious. When he awakens he stumbles out of the cave and is on Mars. Readers are left to wonder whether his adventures are a figment of his psychological dilemna.
We knew there would be other Woola lovers out there: http://www.vulture.com/2012/02/why-were-obsessed-with-woola-from-john-carter.html?mid=380098&rid=422749485
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