Friday Night Lights' TaylorKitsch — the breakout star of X-Men Origins: Wolverine — has landed the coveted lead role in Disney's John Carter of Mars,according to The Hollywood Reporter. Mars will be the firstlive-action effort from Andrew Stanton, the Oscar-winning director ofPixar favorites Wall-E and Finding Nemo. The film, a big-budgetadaptation of the series by Edgar Rice Burroughs, tells the story of acivil war veteran (Kitsch) who is transported to Mars to fight in anepic war between the planet's opposing races. Kitsch's X-Men co-star LynnCollins has also been cast. Disney is aiming for an early 2010 start date, with dreams of launching a blockbuster franchise on the same level asPirates of the Caribbean.
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Who are you, to presume what Disney dreams of?
Way to go Riggins!!!
Yay! Taylor Kitsch is one of my favorites on Friday Night Lights. This is great news.
Is it safe to assume that Lynn Collins has been cast as Deja Thoris, the most beautiful woman on two planets? Works for me!
Woo Hoo!!!
i’m so happy for taylor kitsch. i love him on friday night lights. way to go! this movie seems like it’ll be HUGE.
Wow. I wonder how similar the movie will be to the books…
Congrats to Taylor. That’s so great for him.
They wear nothing but jewelry in the books.. and while that’s fun, it doesn’t seem very Disney.. How can they make this violent, raw tale into something family friendly?
Is Andrew Stanton still working on this?
I dont even know what this is, but I’m going to watch because of Taylor. I have the biggest crush on him now after seeing Wolverine. He was so good as Gambit.
Yay! this is great, look forward to seeing Taylor in this hes become one of my favorite actors since FNL.
Great news for Taylor, I will watch anything with him in it. Tim Riggins is my fav TV character.
Go Taylor! I think it’s great how all us FNL fans are like his cheering squad
I want to eat Tim Riggins.
It is high time for this man to be a movie star.
can’t wait to see if FNL gives him another nod by putting the book on the bedside table like they did with the x-men comic. so proud.
YES
it is high time for this man to be a movie star.
can’t wait to see if FNL gives him another little proud parent nod by sneaking the book into a scene again like they did with the x-men comic last season.
Glad to see Taylor Kitsch getting some love. He has so much heart as Tim Riggins (and the pic of him in EW from a few weeks back is sizzling hot). You earned it, Riggs.
I really like him on Lights but he he has a very interanl acting style. It will be interesting if he hits big in movies.
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Yay Taylor
love tim riggins that’s for sure! Taylor and Megan Fox should have babies and create a super race LOL
I actually like the books, Hopefully if done right this could turn out to be a good movie franchise.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!