“… I’m sorry, but your uncle has vanished” 

and I think the younger boy replies with

“he can’t be, he just can’t be”.

At this point some really cool booming music kicks in as we are transported to Barsoom (or Mars as we know it) or at least the inside of a large dark Middle Eastern styled structure where we see a man getting up from the floor or climbing up through the floor. With a shaft of light shining down on him. As we see more of him we see that he is toned and fit his top half is bare apart from two pieces of material or leather crossing over his chest. A quick Google came up with this John Carter action figure that looks similar.

In terms of body shape thing a more toned leaner Jake Gylenhaal Prince of Persia with better hair. This is John Carter (Taylor Kitsch – Gambit from X-Men Origins: Wolverine)


I forget exactly what follows because it moves very quickly and we don’t really get to see anything substantial like life forms, architecture or two moons – it’s mainly desert or dry landscapes and did seem to look the Lake Powell area in Utah.


At one point we do see a close up of Lynn Collins (Kayla Silverfox from X-Men Origins: Wolverine) as Dejah Thoris (Princess of Mars) and hear her say something to the effect of

“… our planet is dying. You are our only hope John Carter.”

Fade to black and then in large letters JCM slide into place on the screen to reveal the JCM logo. That’s what I remember but a friend who saw the same teaser is convinced that the JCM logo transformation that you can see over at http://disney.go.com/johncarter/ is how it happened. Either way we end on the John Carter logo.

So it seems that John Carter will follow a similar theme to Edgar Rice Burroughs novels and Barsoom will be beset with some ecological disaster in the books air is artificially manufactured to maintain life on Barsoom so I guess we can expect the war between the Barsoom tribes over resources to continue and no doubt the threat of relatively resource rich Earth to raise its head.


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The John Carter teaser trailer is expected to hit UK cinemas with Harry Potter’s release on 15 July and the film has a UK release date of 9 March 2012