John Carter with Matt Singer

We are going to Barsoom with 2012's John Carter - a film that bounced almost as much as the titular hero bounced around on Mars! Matt Singer joins us to talk about this legendary flop - the cursed marketing campaign, the year of Taylor Kitsch, and Disney's acquisition of Marvel and Star Wars, which effectively made John Carter irrelevant almost immediately. Plus, we spend a lot of time talking about X-Men Origins: Wolverine, for some reason.
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The Untold Story of Disney’s $307 Million Bomb ‘John Carter’: ‘It’s a Disaster’ (thewrap.com/john-carter-movie-history-why-it-f…) by Drew Taylor
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