After years of seeming neglect, now everyone seems to be jumping on the John Carter bandwagon. No, not the Noah Wylie character from ER, but Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic hero. A Civil War vet suddenly finds himself on a strange new world, with powers and abilities that make him far above your normal human. The…
Growing up, there was nothing more captivating than Frank Frazetta’s amazing cover paintings for the Science Fiction Book Club editions of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter series of novels set on Barsoom, er, Mars. While there have been many abortive attempts at adapting John Carter as a cartoon or live-action film, we’re finally getting one…
Long on the list of Pulp classics fans have been waiting to get a proper treatment from Hollywood, Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic tale of a soldier from Earth transported to a savage Mars populated with warring tribes and exotic creatures may actually be getting the due it deserves. Follow the link below to the first…
REX RIDERS REX RIDERS By J.P.Carlson 432 pages Monstrostities BooksAvailable June 21, 2011 It was somewhere between the ages of twelve and thirteen that I discovered the classic pulp heroes of old through paperback reprints. Here were 1930s urban heroes such as the Shadow and Doc Savage while primal, wilderness characters were represented by Robert…
At an online press conference preceding this month’s Licensing Show, Walt Disney outlined their plans for 2011 and the future. Andy Mooney, president of Disney Consumer Products, hosted the event and emphasized that the company’s properties were all being evaluated for exploitation in all forms, using the phrase “newness” to cover technology and “value” to…
Triad Toys has announced it has acquired the rights to manufacture action figures based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars Saga. Their press release stated: Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Mars Saga is hailed as one of the most influential works to define modern sci-fi and fantasy literature. Written almost a century ago, the epic…
Pixar’s Andrew Stanton said that he and Mark Andrews are spending the rest of this year on the script adaptation to Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars. The director told Sci FI Wire that their approach is more about taking what they recalled best from the epic science fiction tale rather than a literal…
