Helmer set for 'Mars' expedition.("A Princess of Mars" )(Brief Article)

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From: Daily Variety
Date: 20051006
Author:Fleming, Michael; McNary, Dave

Jon Favreau has been set by Paramount Pictures to direct "A Princess of Mars," the epic adaptation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs sci-fi series.

Alphaville Prods. partners Sean Daniel and Jim Jacks are producing.

Pic begins with a Civil War veteran whose retreat into a cave to avoid capture by Apache Indians takes an otherworldly turn as he's transported via time portal to the planet of Barsoom and taken prisoner by 12-foot-tall green men.

Burroughs wrote 11 volumes of Carter's adventures and the studio is hoping the film will launch a franchise. Ehren Kruger rewrote a ...

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