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Having put the final touches on a brilliant cast, John Carter of Mars](John Carter (2012) - Movie | Moviefone) is getting underway at Disney. Edgar Rice Burroughs’ epic series has seen a lot of stops and starts over the years, and it’s still unbelievable that it’s actually happening. But at this point, it’s still shrouded in pre-production mystery, but Ain’t It Cool News wheeled a little information out of Willem Dafoe about his role as Tars Tarkas, a great Martian warrior and eventual ally of Carter. (Do AICN’s Capone a favor and read the whole interview when you’re done here. It’s excellent.)
Dafoe revealed to Capone that he doesn’t know much more than you or I might, but his enthusiasm for Tarkas and for Andrew Stanton is contagious. “I’ve seen a lot of the designs and things, and I’ve just started to do prep work now. I’m doing a play in New York, so I’m kind of preoccupied by that, but I’m starting doing scans and things like that, but it’s going to be a real full-on … Well, I’m nine feet tall with four arms, but, just from the scheduling, I’m going to do the stuff … They’ll use my face, but they’ll enhance it in a way --both after and before-- in a way that I may not be recognizable. But, I’m good with that. It’s particularly cool, because he’s a creature, but he’s got this huge range of character. And, he does cool things in the movies.” As *John Carter *will be coming on the heels of all James Cameron, Robert Zemeckis, and Disney’s Davy Jones’ “game changing” technology, the possibilities of what this could look like are pretty enticing.
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