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Michael Giacchino, who scored many Pixar films, composed the music.

Filming began in November 2009, with principal photography underway in January 2010, wrapping seven months later in July. It was his live-action debut, after his directorial work for Disney on the Pixar animated films Finding Nemo and WALL-E.

Stanton became the new film's director in 2009. The project was driven by Stanton, who had pressed Disney to renew the screen rights from the Burroughs estate. In the late-2000s, Walt Disney Pictures began a concerted effort to adapt Burroughs' works to film, after an abandoned venture in the 1980s. Most of these efforts ultimately stalled in development hell.

Several attempts to adapt the Barsoom series had been made since the 1930s by various major studios and producers. It chronicles the first interplanetary adventure of John Carter and his attempts to mediate civil unrest amongst the warring kingdoms of Barsoom. Produced by Jim Morris, Colin Wilson and Lindsey Collins, it stars Taylor Kitsch in the title role, Lynn Collins, Samantha Morton, Mark Strong, Ciarán Hinds, Dominic West, James Purefoy and Willem Dafoe. I think they figured that out pretty quick, but they were patient with me and I learned how to ride." Apparently, the experience wasn't too traumatic for Dafoe to relive it a few years later: He'd play the leader of a biker gang again in Walter Hill's cult masterpiece "Streets of Fire.John Carter is a 2012 American science fiction action-adventure film directed by Andrew Stanton, written by Stanton, Mark Andrews, and Michael Chabon, and based on A Princess of Mars, the first book in the Barsoom series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs. I go riding through the backyards of some fancy neighborhood in Connecticut. So when he saddled the hog, he says, "It takes off with me. Is it one down, two up?"īy the time the moment of truth rolled around, Dafoe still didn't know the back end of a motorcycle from the front. Dafoe told GQ, "I don't want to lose the part, so they say, have you ever ridden a motorcycle? O course, classically, what does an actor do? They lie." He was eventually found out when shooting began and he was called upon to ride a "1955 big Harley hog." He scrambled to find someone to teach him before he started filming, without any success: "That's before the internet, so I'm going to the library to get a book on how to shift.