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The man from mars

Katrina Gulliver
Mar 18
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The movie John Carter was released ten years ago, and this is a fascinating piece on how it turned into a big-budget flop. I saw the film at the time, and it struck me as highly derivative of other science fiction classics.

Except it wasn’t. Edgar Rice Burroughs’ stories of John Carter of Mars were original. Burroughs published his first John Carter sto…

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