John Carter, Warlord of Mars

Once of the coincidences that one would not believe in fiction has just happened to me: I assume I am the last person to know that Disney is making PRINCESS OF MARS into a movie. Since I have just been rereading this novel (with immense pleasure–it is much better than I remember it) to my young son, and wondering why it was never made into a movie before, when many of Burrough’s other works, Tarzan and Pellucidar and so on, had been, it therefore came as an immense pleasure and surprise that we have a film coming.

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