Here’s a teaser for Disney’s Super Bowl spot for John Carter. There’s a contest tie-in for a trip to Super Bowl XLVII in 2013 in New Orleans. Details within.
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What a horrible trailer.
Disney better call in the bomb squad.
Big trouble for Walt Disney on Earth.
I think it’s stupendous!
In that I don’t have to watch more than 15 seconds of that CGI crapfest…
A blink or you’ll miss it trailer. Worthless.
At least it doesn’t look like a complete rip-off of Avatar this time.
Rich Ross, future interim EVP of scripted for the OWN network (or A&E)
Sean Baily future Director of Development for Valhalla Pictures
Get your act together guys, THIS MOVIE COST A FORTUNE
Looks like a steaming pile of moist crap. Better than the trailer though.
I thought that castle with the fireworks right at the beginning looked pretty cool!
A horse. Dead. Flog it harder, Disney.
I hope this is good. I really do. But a rumored $400 million budget? What in god’s name were they smoking? How can it possibly expect to make back its production costs, much less a profit?
First we get the energy drink ad teaser poster.
Then utter silence.
Then when it’s nearly too late all these spots devoid of plot points that would be enticing for all the people that they were obviously scared of saying “Of Mars” to. Now CGI set pieces devoid of context (even mood, which is more important) are being ladled out I guess to reassure at least the Comic Con crowd.
I still have great faith in Stanton and sincere admiration that Disney put this into production but if you pull the trigger on material why start out being embarrassed by what it is? It would be dumb to make a final pronouncement and as a genre fan would like this to do well so here’s hoping the movie is good enough to overcome its stupendously bad marketing.
From what I’ve read, this thing cost big money and does not have the big buzz to go with it. I still can’t believe this got greenlit – old properties don’t seem to be gelling with the public lately. The Green Hornet was an awful mess, the Conan reboot was awful, and I don’t see the kids attracted to this John Carter thing. Opening in March? Yeesh.
Oh well. When it bombs it will be fun to see if there’s any fallout towards the Lone Ranger film…..
No. This time it looks like a cheap rip off of Yor-Hunter From the Future.
@INterested Observer — best comment of the day. LOL. Valhalla pics! OWN network!
Well, that was completely worthless. Heads will roll when this thing tanks at the box office. Disney seems to have forgotten how to make movies.
I think the movie looks at least as good as anything else these days, but either way it’s an albatross from the Dick Cook regime – Ross & co must do what they can…
No trailer, and not a teaser. Looks simply like I-don’t-wanna-watch-this. Terrible. Who runs the marketing department at Disney? Ross himself?
Has anyone spewing hate on here actually seen the movie? I have. To quote myself, “It’s fucking awesome.”
Good point…most of us have not seen this film.
On the other hand…if you are correct…all these posts are even more valid as the marketing certainly is not generating much positive buzz. On the contrary, if this film is great…the marketing is killing it out of the box.
Glad to hear it’s worthwhile. I’m in the tank, already. Really. I just don’t see how it’s going to do enough business to justify the (rumored) upfront costs. The Avengers cost–what?–$250 million or so, and they *know* it’s going to make bank. JC is an esoteric property with a relatively unknown lead actor. If I am Disney, or Andrew Stanton (a very talented guy), I am sweating bullets right now.
Mate, there’s no way you could’ve actually seen it and liked it unless you had been a lifelong fan of the book series beforehand. The trailers show so many bad things happening in there that the only way to make it all work would be to go for a meta, camp approach. Point in case – the way the lead actors deliver in this trailer for a trailer: “You are John Carter of Earth?” “Yeees!” “*drumroll… literally*” – it’d be great, if only they were aware of how crappy it was. I’ve seen some interviews with those actors and well… this shit is for real.
And it cost 250 million.
300 million dollars on this mess and it still looks awful. Insanity. That’s over a quarter of a billion dollars! Approaching half a billion with marketing! Insanity!
what an idiotic waste of money… half the spot is a static card with a bunch of unreadable nonsense and a weird voice muttering nonsense under loud cheesy music.
how ’bout showing parts of the MOVIE!
This really has the potential to be one of the all-time bombs.
too much PR for the payoff. If you have to try that hard to get an audience, it can’t be too good.
Clearly John Lasseter gave this the green light–he is far more powerful than Rich and can do whatever he wants. Stanton is one of his boys and his stature assured him that he’d get whatever resources he needed to make this film. The interesting thing will be what happens when it bombs. Clearly blame marketing will be one thing, but what else will bob do to assure the world that he’s got the movie division under control? Can’t get rid of lasseter. Duh. Does he blame rich and get rid of him so that it seems like he’s doing something to right the ship? And get real people, it doesn’t matter if rr had nothing to do with it. That’s how the game is played–remember, nina got canned just weeks after pirates 2. If they can do that, anything’s possible. (Speaking of nj, how great is it that she’s about to have a huge hit in Hunger Games two weeks after this bombs? Awesome!)
Clearly you don’t know what you’re talking about. This was a gift from the Dick Cook regime before Rich Ross took over.
Every new piece of marketing material that comes out for this movie makes it look worse and worse. The sad thing is, it’s likely not as bad as the marketing is making it look.
Though, I do think the lead is HORRIBLY miscast, very similar to how absurd it was to have Jake Gyllenhaal as the lead in Prince of Persia (which also bombed). Very similar vibe between those two movies. Although, sadly, John Carter looks even worse.