Asylum's Princess of Mars

[Jim H]

It's an Asylum release, and is obviously a cash-in because they're actually going into pre-production for a big budget version of Burrough's quite fun first Barsoomian novel featuring John Carter.

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It came out on DVD today, and apparently features a scantily clad Traci Lords.  That's a bonus, I guess.  The film looks like they actually have a decent amount of stuff from the books, though toned down a lot (the green martians, the people who've captured John Carter in the trailer, are like 12 feet tall and have four arms in the novels). 

Still though, while a bad trailer, it shows some potential.  But it IS an Asylum release, so it goes into bad movies!

Anyone seen it yet?

[Jack]

I'll definitely pick it up when the used copies of the DVD's get down in the $5 range.  The trailer looks kind of good, and I generally enjoy Asylum movies - their last couple of efforts notwithstanding.