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John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood: How the Sci-Fi Classic Flopped at the Box Office But Continues to Inspire Fans and Filmmakers
John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood: How the Sci-Fi Classic Flopped at the Box Office But Continues to Inspire Fans and Filmmakers
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Author: Michael D. Sellers Publisher: Universal Media Format: Softcover # of Pages: 370 Pub. Date: 2012 ISBN-10: 0615682316 ISBN-13: 9780615682310
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About the Book:
John Carter And
The Gods Of Hollywood examines every aspect of Andrew Stanton's
adaptation and Disney's marketing campaign and seeks to answer the
question: What went wrong? It includes a history of Hollywood's 100
year effort to bring the film to the screen, and examines the global
fan movement spawned by the film.
It took 100 years to
bring Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter of Mars to the big screen. It
took Disney Studios just ten days to declare the film a flop and lock
it away in the Disney vaults. How did this project, despite its
quarter-billion dollar budget, the brilliance of director Andrew
Stanton, and the creative talents of legendary Pixar Studios, become
a calamity of historic proportions?
Michael Sellers, a filmmaker and Hollywood insider himself,
saw the disaster approaching and fought to save the project — but
without success. In John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood,
Sellers details every blunder and betrayal that led to the doom of
the motion picture — and that left countless Hollywood careers in
the wreckage.
What people say:
"John Carter and the Gods
of Hollywood by Michael D. Sellers is a fascinating look at the risks
in today's big studio 'tentpole' era
of filmmaking and the current movie marketing landscape."
— Thor Diakow, entertainment host and producer of Breakfast
Television, Vancouver
About the Author:
Michael D.
Sellers is an award-winning American filmmaker and author whose
books include John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood. He was a
Magna Cum Laude graduate of the University of Delaware in 1975, where
he was a Rhodes Scholarship and Danforth Fellowship finalist. Prior
to his career as a filmmaker and writer he served 10 years as a CIA
Operations officer, earning the CIA's Intelligence Commendation Medal
for his service in the Philippines during the violent coup attempt of
December 1989.
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