D23: Director Andrew Stanton talks John Carter

"How do you want to maintain the desert where it's 100 levels and you are on stilts putting on pyjamas?" This is the question Andrew Stanton, director of John Carter, requested Willem Dafoe and Samantha Morten but both stars still registered towards the production."I struck gold," the director stated concerning the stars, including Taylor Kitsch who plays John Carter.Dafoe and Morten play Tharks, eco-friendly-skinned aliens who're much taller than Carter's civil war soldier - hence the stilts and individuals pyjamas, that have been really motion capture clothing.This isthe first live-action movie for Stanton (Finding Nemo, Wall-E), who stated hefirst arrived to connection with Edgar Grain Burroughs' character through Marvel's seventies comic-books coupled with even attracted the hero in a youthful age.A glass-half-full D23 audience member may think Disney gets just a little restless concerning the film, given how long it spent previewing it at D23.That incorporated four clips in the film, which saw John wake on Mars and witness the birth of baby Tharks his early ending up in Tars Tarkas (Dafoe) and also the realisation the lesser gravity enables him to leap just like a super hero an encounter having a dog-like creature while jailed within the Thark nursery a heart to heart having a humanoid princess who's going to have no choice but into an arranged marriage along with a The Exorcist-type fight scene with Tarkas and Carter sentenced to dying by angry whitened ape within an arena.Everything looks good (specially the CGI dog) and in the early footage there is a serious, sombre tone towards the film. United kingdom audiences will need to hold back until 9 March 2012 to ascertain if it dangles together like a finished movie.