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While promoting his upcoming villainous role in Sherlock Holmes, co-star Mark Strong sat down with Cinema Blend to chat about his next role in Disney and Pixar's John Carter of Mars, based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic tale "A Princess of Mars." While he doesn't reveal anything about his rumored role of Matai Shang, the ruler of the Thems, he does talk about the technical aspects involved with shooting his character in "Mars."
"There's some filming in Utah, but most of it is in a studio outside of London," Strong said. "My character doesn't actually get involved in any of the motion-capture stuff. All the stuff is live action. Although I can shift my shape, so I have to be photographed by a 360-degree camera. I can adapt into anything. That's going to be my particular talent."
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He will be co-starring alongside Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Willem Dafoe, Samantha Morton, Dominic West, Polly Walker, Thomas Haden Church and James Purefoy. Director Andrew Stanton is helming from a story he wrote with Mark Andrews.
Plot Concept: Created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, John Carter first appeared in 1911's "A Princess of Mars," the first Burroughs novel set on the fictionalized version of Mars. Carter encounters both formidable alien creatures resembling the beasts of ancient myth and various humanoids and finds his true calling in life as a warrior-savior of the planet's inhabitants. He wins the hand of Martian princess Dejah Thoris of Helium.
John Carter of Mars will hit theaters Summer 2012.
Matai Shang couldn't shape shift. All he did was run like a little b**** for a whole book.
Another of my highly aniticipated films coming down the pike. 2012 is going to be awesome