An Update on 'Mars' from Andrew Stanton
Tue, January 13, 2009 
Director Andrew Stanton (Wall-E) had a chat with the good folks at Sci Fi Wire where he revealed that things are coming along with John Carter of Mars, the long in the development big-screen adaptation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs novels:
"[I'm] deep into it. I'm on my next draft of it. We're in preproduction art-wise, and we're starting to talk to actors. So it's full bore.
The Finding Nemo helmer also confirmed that the film would be live-action:
"Yeah, I think that's the only way. I mean, there are so many creatures and characters that half of it's going to be CG whether you want it to be [or not], just to realize some of these images that are in the book. But it will feel real. The whole thing will feel very, very believable."
Considering this is the same filmmaker who got audiences emotionally attached to a little trash-compressing robot this past summer (which was the best film of 2008, for my money), I'm willing to give Stanton and his team the benefit of the doubt.
Although I'm still damn curious as to how this thing is going to look!
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