The veteran American actor is one of the latest additions to the John Carter of Mars adaptation, the famous literary character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
The project, in the hands of Director Andrew Stanton, already has the participation of Lynn Collins and Taylor Kitsch, plus the possible membership of Thomas Haden Church, who confessed a few days ago that he was in talks to join the production of Walt Disney Pictures. Williem dafoe already has a role: will play Tars Tarkas, a barbarian and violent Martian capable of feeling love, a peculiarity not very typical among his race.
The science fiction story tells the life of John Carter, a veteran of the civil war who is sent to the red planet, where several native ethnic groups fight a cruel war. There, Carter will become the key to ending the war conflict.. Own Stanton wrote the script, in collaboration with the duo of Mark Andrews and Michael Chabon.
The premiere of John Carter of Mars It still does not have a date but it is known that will arrive in 2012. If the ticket office accompanied, lThe idea is to complete a trilogy.