[JediJones]

For its October 1917 hardcover publication by A.C. McClurg & Company, the novel was retitled A Princess of Mars.”Which after Prince of Persia and The Princess of the Frog wouldn't have been a marketable title either. The idea that movies have flopped because "Mars" was in the title and that this one would also is just silly. I'm pretty sure Mars Needs Moms was the only one to come out in the past decade, is probably largely forgotten, and the overall title doesn't sound at all like John Carter of Mars. The idea that you can succeed by running away from the premise of your movie in its title is nonsensical.

[ltc8k6]

I didn’t say anything at all about the title...I was pointing out that the stories were 100 years old, not just 50.

But since you brought it up, maybe they should have used the proper title, Under the Moons of Mars.

[Ransomed]

The director has said that “Princess” was nixed because they thought no boys would go and see it. I’m not buying that it would matter that much, but the term has gotten a little more pink and frilly since ERB wrote it. So then it was going to be John Carter of Mars. “Of Mars” was then nixed because they thought no girls would go and see it, because girls hate sci-fi and planets or something. We are just lucky it wasn’t Get Carter’s Princess Diaries. I thought WALL-E was one of the best Sci-fi movies in a long time, so I hope this movie is cool.

The clips of Barsoom don’t look like what I was picturing in my head all these years. It looks like an earth desert. Of course I heard Pixar/disney and all I was picturing was Frazetta’s paintings coming to life. But it just doesn’t seem as exotic as I remember from the books.

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