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I think the trailer for this completely failed to promote that it was based on a classic book by Edgar Rice Burroughs and in itself, it fails to sell the movie because it doesn't show at all what makes it stand out besides other sci-fi films of its ilk.

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Then again, how many casual movie-goers know, or even give a fuck, who Edgar Rice Burroughs is ?

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It should've at least said something like "Based on the Classic Novel" or something.

It would give it some cred.

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

Pretty much what I mean.

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they made him a character in the film tho

thats more than enough

....What?

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

Yes, Edgar Rice Burroughs is a character in the film. This is consistent with Burroughs' claim at the start of the novel that he simply found Carter's diary of Barsoomian adventures and was passing it along to us, the audience. He'll be played in the film by Daryl Sabara.

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This is truly a madhouse. And I'm the lunatic running it. I've spent three years wondering if I should be proud or ashamed.

I agree, I think I said here before, if not it was somewhere else, they could have at least put "From Edgar Rice Burroughs, the creator of Tarzan" or something, Tarzan is pretty much universally known.

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We're all actors, Laurie. I'm just an actor who read the script.

Okay, I understand that, but I think Project completely missed our point.

I don't think including Burroughs as a character is going to help the marketing of the film.

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

did'nt miss your point at all

like saying from creator of tarzan is gonna effect box office

did'nt help solomon kane when it said creator of conan(a far more popular title)

are you seriously saying Conan is more popular and well known than Tarzan?

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We're all actors, Laurie. I'm just an actor who read the script.

i misspoke they are both extremely popular - not 1 more popular than the other

but tarzan did come first tho

Well tarzan does have a lot more adaptations, including a disney movie.

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We're all actors, Laurie. I'm just an actor who read the script.

So I basically just read a quote by Andrew Stanton that said he dropped the "Of Mars" part of the title because not everyone likes sci-fi and he didn't want to give them a wrong first impression.

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

NOT EVERYONE LIKES SCIFI SO I'LL DROP THE SCIFI PART OF THE TITLE SO THEY'LL SOME SEE MY SCIFI MOVIE AND FUCKING HATE IT, AND THE FANS OF THE CHARACTER WILL FUCKING HATE IT TOO BECAUSE IT ISN'T SCIFI LIKE THE FAMOUS SCIFI CHARACTER THAT IT'S SUPPOSEDLY ABOUT

Although, in seriousness, it's more fantasy than scifi. But who actually dislikes scifi anyway?

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Say, Doc, did I ever tell you I'm the only metal that's liquid at room temperature?

Man, that's like Sci-Fi changing their name to SyFy to attempt to reach the non science-fiction crowds, despite totally playing more sci-fi than before.

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This movie is already a disaster in the making, this is just icing on the cake.

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oh ya i forgot that paraphrased quote = quote

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