John Carter of Mars to be made by Pixar

Pretty cool. I loved those books when I was a kid. [Link]

Pixar is indeed working on a movie version of John Carter of Mars, with a script written by Wall-E's director Andrew Stanton, who also worked on Finding Nemo. The confirmation came from Stanton himself, talking to fans after a convention appearance in Toronto last week.

From Wikipedia:

Barsoom series

Main article: Barsoom

• A Princess of Mars (1912) (Project Gutenberg Entry: [1]) (LibriVox.org MP3 recording [2])
• The Gods of Mars (1914) (Project Gutenberg Entry:[3]) (LibriVox.org MP3 recording [4])
• The Warlord of Mars (1918) (Project Gutenberg Entry:[5]) (AudioBooksForFree.com MP3 recording [6])
• Thuvia, Maid of Mars (1920) (Project Gutenberg Entry:[7]) (AudioBooksForFree.com MP3 recording [8])
• The Chessmen of Mars (1922) (Project Gutenberg Entry:[9])
• The Master Mind of Mars (1928) (Project Gutenberg Entry:[10])
• A Fighting Man of Mars (1931) (Project Gutenberg Entry:[11])
• Swords of Mars (1936) (Project Gutenberg Entry:[12])
• Synthetic Men of Mars (1940) (Project Gutenberg Entry:[13])
• Llana of Gathol (1948) (Project Gutenberg Entry:[14])
• John Carter of Mars (1964)
  • "John Carter and the Giant of Mars" (1940) (Project Gutenberg Entry:[15])
  • "Skeleton Men of Jupiter" (1942) (Project Gutenberg Entry:[16])