John Carter is a 2012 American science fiction action-adventure film directed by Andrew Stanton (best known for Finding Nemo and WALL-E ), written by Stanton, Mark Andrews, and Michael Chabon, and based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars , the first book in the Barsoom series of novels. The story chronicles the first interplanetary adventure of John Carter and his attempts to mediate the civil conflict amongst the warring kingdoms of Barsoom (the name given to Mars by its inhabitants).

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The following essay explores the 2012 film John Carter , examining its role as a foundational but misunderstood science fiction epic.