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Somebody in the Disney Marketing Machine needs to serious butt kicking for this.
A story best known for Swashbuckling Adventures, scifi creatures, and naked space babes.
Frazetta rolls over in his grave over this misfire.
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Somebody in the Disney Marketing Machine needs to serious butt kicking for this.
A story best known for Swashbuckling Adventures, scifi creatures, and naked space babes.
Frazetta rolls over in his grave over this misfire.
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Sanjulian's still alive and kicking; they should have had him work on it. Concerning the film itself, I wonder how true to the source it'll be, considering it's Disney? -
It's just a teaser poster - we'll get a proper poster as the date gets closer."It's sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues. There is iron in your words of death for all Comanche to see, and so there is iron in your words of life. No signed paper can hold the iron. It must come from men. The words of Ten Bears carries the same iron of life and death. It is good that warriors such as we meet in the struggle of life... or death. It shall be life."Comment
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Yeah, but will it just be a bunch of headshots combined in Photoshop of varying sizes and positions based on what the actors' agents have negotiated?
I'm just a big huge fan of the old style painted pulp movie poster SF paperback style is all.
I just walked past the Conan 3-D poster and it doesn't thrill me as much as the originals. It seems like all the movie posters in the theatre these days are just composited actor headshots.
Sorry. End of Grumpy ol' man rant.Comment
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There's no way Disney is going to promote this film with a nearly bare-breasted woman on the poster.Comment
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>It seems like all the movie posters in the theatre these days are just composited actor headshots.
Yeah. I suspect it's 'cos they're going for name recognition. Even if it's some guy you don't actually recognize. ("Yet," being the underlying thought.)
>There's no way Disney is going to promote this film with a nearly bare-breasted woman on the poster.
I dunno, worked for "The Little Mermaid." Besides; they'll need a shot of the obligatory semi-competent, plucky female lead.
Don C.Comment
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Oh, believe me, I'd love it if they did a Frazetta-esque painted poster for this, and I'd be obligated to get a copy for my office on general principle (love painted posters), but this is the age of Photoshop. Big head shots sadly seem to be the norm, although Disney could do a big headshot of Dejah Thoris in the background (thereby cancelling out any concerns of her bare breastedness. Plus, the movie's based on the first Barsoom book "A Princess of Mars", so she deserves headshot status), with John Carter front and center in a Frazetta style pose next to Tars Tarkas on a Martian landscape."It's sad that governments are chiefed by the double tongues. There is iron in your words of death for all Comanche to see, and so there is iron in your words of life. No signed paper can hold the iron. It must come from men. The words of Ten Bears carries the same iron of life and death. It is good that warriors such as we meet in the struggle of life... or death. It shall be life."Comment
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Also because actors typically have contracts that stipulate how prominent they appear in the advertising. Stipulating the size of their head-shot should be whatever percentage of the size of the poster, or billed above so-and-so. I have friends who work on these things and it drives them nuts that actors and agents are the ones that get final say.Last edited by samurainoir; Jun 18, '11, 7:53 AM.Comment
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Those shots are such a cop-out. There are no breasts in those posters. That is so familiar. Perhaps they got the idea from this:
They are covered by the women's hair, (and they are pretty flat-chested to not have them peek out from underneath), or they are completely turned around so as not to show them.
Also Disney faced backlash when they did an animated Tarzan flick. Many people complained about Tarzan posters showing a Tarzan wearing only a loincloth. He was a freakin' cartoon character. Did people think he was going to be anatomically correct? There is a difference between cutey-semi nude cartoon characters and real actor nude characters.Comment
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the books were pretty racey ,at its time,i can't see this being good with a G-PG rating.Comment
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I read somewhere that they are dropping Warlord of Mars from the title, too.You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace. -Ernie BanksComment
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