The preview offers various heroic footage of a man named John Carter who gets transported to a historic world where he takes part in an epic warship, with a cover of Arcade Fire’s “My Body Is a Cage” by Peter Gabriel being used as the backsound.
Based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’s classic novel, “John Carter” tells the story of an American Civil War veteran who suddenly enters a nearly collapse planet Mars (Barsoom), where he then becomes a hero who saves Barsoom from destruction.
Have a look:
While ‘Wolverine’ alum Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins are mostly featured and you get a quick glimpse at one of the aliens, you’ll note you’ll hear Willem Dafoe in the background somwhere, and there is a shot of his character Tars Tarkas being a bit mysterious. You hardly see Tars at all, and only Barsoomsmen in general, from a distance. There’s a good reason for this. While the teaser trailer shows us enough (and very impressive in doing so) we know Tars Tarkas should look something like…this:
So, hats off to Disney for not giving away the farm. Unless that wimpy looking alien in the teaser was Tars, (which on further inspection, I sadly think it WAS) we appear to be in good shape like Kitsch’s six pack and Collins’ curves.
What say you, int’l friends?
