News in from Heat Vision about the expanding of upcoming interstellar epic John Carpenter of Mars.
James Purefoy, Mark Strong and Thomas Haden Church will all be getting their asses to the red planet to hook up with Taylor Kitsch –you may have seen him previously lurking in Wolverine – Samantha Morton and Willem Dafoe.
No news on a Director yet, but Spider-Man 2 writer Michael Chabon is adapting Edgar Rice Burrough’s lysergic tale of a US Civil War veteran transported to a colourful alien world of 10 foot tall, four-limbed Martian warriors, exotic princesses and balding, godlike beings.
Sounding like the kind of wildly original, incredibly ambitious set-up that’s normally reserved for animation, STS is already jiggling about in anticipation.
What do you think? Is this the new Star Wars, or the Star Wars prequels?
