[Ransomed]

If I remember, those are the ground hog sized multi-limbed Barsoomian rats.

Another thing is these books had some of the best imagery ever, and Frazetta and Mike Whelan captured that in the art they did for the various paperback editions. The trailers makes it look like some Earth desert—it has been years since I read them though, so maybe that is the way it was in the books, but man that is not what I have been picturing all these years. Maybe because of the artwork I’ve seen. The director is the guy who did Wall-E so I am thinking it might be pretty good.

Freegards

[cripplecreek]

Burroughs was an artist in his own right.

There were four of us aboard the flier I had stolen from the hangar at Kamtol to effect our escape from The Valley of the First Born: Llana of Gathol; Pan Dan Chee of Horz; Jad-han, the brother of Janai of Amhor; and I, John Carter, Prince of Helium and Warlord of Barsoom.

It was one of those startlingly gorgeous Martian nights that fairly take one`s breath away. In the thin air of the dying planet, every star stands out in scintillant magnificence against the velvet blackness of the firmament in splendor inconceivable to an inhabitant of Earth.

As we rose above the great rift valley, both of Mars` moons were visible, and Earth and Venus were in conjunction, affording us a spectacle of incomparable beauty. Cluros, the farther moon, moved in stately dignity across the vault of heaven but fourteen thousand miles away, while Thuria, but four thousand miles distant, hurtled through the night from horizon to horizon in less than four hours, casting ever changing shadows on the ground below us which produced the illusion of constant movement, as though the surface of Mars was covered by countless myriads of creeping, crawling things. I wish that I might convey to you some conception of the weird and startling strangeness of the scene and of its beauty; but, unfortunately, my powers of description are wholly inadequate.

But perhaps some day you, too, will visit Mars.

[BenLurkin]

“maybe that is the way it was in the books”

No, it wasn’t. I sense a huge disappointment coming in this movie.

[BenLurkin]

[ronnyquest]

"Another thing is these books had some of the best imagery ever, and Frazetta and Mike Whelan captured that in the art they did for the various paperback editions."

Frazetta, rest his soul, was a master. He captured the essence of a great many exceptional works of American fiction.