Everything We Know About John Carter 2 & 3's Canceled Story Plans
John Carter was initially supposed to be a movie trilogy, but the sequels never happened — here is everything we know about John Carter 2 and 3's unrealized story plans. With <a href=«https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=» https: screenrant.com>Toy Story
's Andrew Stanton at its helm, Disney's John Carter movie adapts Edgar Rice Burroughs' pulpy sci-fi novel, A Princess of Mars. The movie does an incredible job at building a rich, mythology-fueled interstellar world where a brooding cosmic conflict becomes the backdrop of romantic developments and promising CGI-fueled action scenes. Considering that it has all the markings of a potential franchise, it is not surprising that director Andrew Stanton wanted to move it forward as a full-fledged fantasy movie series.
John Carter centers on a titular Civil War veteran who mysteriously finds himself on Mars. As he explores the planet's desolate surface, he soon comes across strange fantastical creatures and also learns that he possesses the ability to defy Mars' gravity and make giant leaps in the air. This newfound ability comes in handy when Carter (played by Taylor Kitsch of the Friday Night Lights fame) gets embroiled in a brewing war on the planet and fights evil to become a hero.
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The original Edgar Rice novels offer an abundance of source material content for at least two more sequels, and the movie also ends with an intriguing Avatar-esque cliffhanger that sets up the stage for another Mars adventure. Unfortunately, although Andrew Stanton did have a trilogy in mind when he first directed John Carter, the follow-ups never saw the light of the day because of a series of marketing
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