UPDATE:New Image From John Carter

Check out this new shot from the upcoming Andrew Stanton film John Carter, that is featured in Entertainment Weekly and shows the ferocious White Apes from Mars.Updated with HQ shot and interview from Stanton

By WaylonJones - Nov 23, 2011 07:11 AM EST

Filed Under: John Carter of Mars

Source: EW

From Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Andrew Stanton, “John Carter" is a sweeping action adventure set on the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars). Based on the classic sci-fi novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the film tells the story of John Carter (Taylor Kitsch), who is inexplicably transported to Mars where he becomes embroiled in a conflict of epic proportions amongst the inhabitants of the planet, including Tars Tarkas (Willem Dafoe) and the captivating Princess Dejah Thoris (Lynn Collins). In a world on the brink of collapse, Carter discovers that the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands.

Via EW

On the White Apes:

"They’re sort of an oversized gorilla in the books, and they’re kind of ubiquitous. They’re littered everywhere through at least the first several novels. They were always cool, just from a visceral standpoint, [but] they don’t really have a narrative function in the first book. So what we did is we made the White Apes a formidable creature that you kind of hear about throughout the movie, but you never really witness. There’s a subtle sense of anticipation for what these things might be like. Then Michael Kutsche — who did a lot of the designs on [the Johnny Depp movie] Alice in Wonderland – came up with this design on his own, for just their scale. He made them nocturnal, almost like moles — they stopped using their eyes, and just had a heightened sense of smell. We just love that. We needed a scene where Carter was going have to get out of his execution sentence in order to move the story forward, and we thought what better than having to go up against this formidable creature?"

On hoe John Carter came to be in this predicament:

I don’t want to give any spoilers away, but basically he needs an army to solve his big problem in the third act, and the only army he knows was his previous captors. When he goes back, the game has changed, and he gets incarcerated. This is what he has to get out of. He has to get out of jail and not get killed by these apes in order to get his bigger problem solved.

On the picture above and the skill set he has:

He’s not Superman. He has this one Superman-like ability where he can leap farther than we can here [on Earth]. But it’s like being a man on the moon. It can’t be forever. He can build up momentum. This green species called Tharks, they know his one special jumping ability, so they chain him to a rock. It’s entertainment. It’s entertainment to watch this execution. They give him a nice long length of chain, so he can bounce around, but he can’t go out of the arena. It’s an interesting problem to have for that guy.

John Carter stars Taylor Kitsch, Willem Dafoe, Lynn Collins, Mark Strong, and will be released on March 9, 2012.

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39 Comments

PaulRom - 11/23/2011, 7:37 AM

O_O My anticipation just increased quite a bit.

nuck82 - 11/23/2011, 7:42 AM

looks like a fuzzy version of the thing luke fights in returns

AlexDeLarge87 - 11/23/2011, 7:44 AM

That looks epic ;)

AlexDeLarge87 - 11/23/2011, 7:47 AM

hippo/gorilla hybrid

Brashlight - 11/23/2011, 7:48 AM

nuck@ Jeez man you mean a Rancor...what kind of geek are you?! LOL

NeoBaggins - 11/23/2011, 7:48 AM

HELP IS ON THE WAY!!!!

Brashlight - 11/23/2011, 7:49 AM

Nomis@ Understandable mistake but the big difference is this movie wont suck hairy nut sacks!

PaulRom - 11/23/2011, 7:51 AM

@Nomis I think he shaved too. :P

AlexDeLarge87 - 11/23/2011, 7:56 AM

tea@ LOL I feel sorry for you now ;)

WolvieCBM - 11/23/2011, 7:59 AM

WOW! Amazing!

marvel72 - 11/23/2011, 8:01 AM

that looks really good.

StrangerX - 11/23/2011, 8:02 AM

I hope this is a good as it looks

PaulRom - 11/23/2011, 8:08 AM

I got a theme song for the coming Jedi already!

villain001 - 11/23/2011, 8:10 AM

that monkey needs to go to the dentist

Brashlight - 11/23/2011, 8:14 AM

Nomis@ LMAO!

NeoBaggins - 11/23/2011, 8:46 AM

Oh its on now! place your bets!

Superheromoviefan - 11/23/2011, 8:49 AM

O_O!

Superdan2012 - 11/23/2011, 8:50 AM

That creature might be a man-eating monster

Cross - 11/23/2011, 9:04 AM

THAT.

IS.

BEYOND.

AWESOME.

PaulRom - 11/23/2011, 9:12 AM

Bring it bitches!

MassExecutions - 11/23/2011, 9:26 AM

SWEET.

kingkrikkit - 11/23/2011, 9:27 AM

Actually in the book John Carter basically did have Superman-like powers, which was why he was able to battle the much-larger Tharks in hand to hand combat. His strength, while increased, wasnt ridiculous it also had its limits.

darthbobtarkas - 11/23/2011, 10:59 AM

Okay. I didn't expect the white apes to be THIS huge.

JackBauer - 11/23/2011, 11:34 AM

Awesome. Can't wait for this.

headlopper - 11/23/2011, 12:12 PM

@NeoBaggins- First thought that popped into my mind...and a very clever way to illustrate it I might add!

NeoBaggins - 11/23/2011, 7:21 PM

OH SHIT! THE REEK HAS JOINED THE BATTLE! WHERE ARE ALL THE AWKWARD EXTRAS WITH LIGHTSABERS PRETENDING TO BE JEDI OF THE GOLDEN AGE?!

pro346 - 11/23/2011, 9:58 PM

I so hyped for this and dont laugh battleship!

darkendeath - 11/23/2011, 10:30 PM

I have re-read the 1st 5 books of the John Carter series and this pic of the white ape looks cool. I hope that people understand that Lucas, Cameron and many others got ideas their ideas fortheir movies from these books. The arena fight in Star Wars was from the books of John Carter that Lucas read, I can't wait till the movie comes out in 2012. :)

novaprime - 11/24/2011, 12:27 AM

Lol,@elgua. looking good. Hope this movies good

Jolt17 - 11/24/2011, 3:10 AM

That's sick, pretty obvious green screen background but still, it's sick. Now I'm more interested in this movie.

NeoBaggins LMAO, nice. :)

admiralhowdy - 11/24/2011, 4:08 AM

This absolutely SUCKS that they are not getting the look of the creatures at all right. These things have been intricately described in the books and accurately depicted by many artists before, and now they have both the green Martians and the white apes looking wrong. The apes are the only critters on mars with eyes in the middle of their faces (aside from human species), and here we have the rancor ripoff crap. It's so disappointing.

admiralhowdy - 11/24/2011, 4:23 AM

And now that I've read the interview, I am simply angered they are re-writing the whole frikking story. So I guess I won't be seeing the would-have-been awesome scene involving white apes and Woola. Why are the even making this movie? I thought it was to finally bring a classic to the screen, but silly me it's just to make a buck as usual. Thanks Lassiter. Thanks a bunch. For NOTHING.

NeoBaggins - 11/25/2011, 1:55 AM

"I'd shit myself out of those chains."

Ah, lube. Good thinking.

UPDATE:New Image From John Carter

Check out this new shot from the upcoming Andrew Stanton film John Carter, that is featured in Entertainment Weekly and shows the ferocious White Apes from Mars.Updated with HQ shot and interview from Stanton

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