Stunning concept art for John Carter

The other day we showed you the new teaser one-sheet for Andrew Stanton’s John Carter (minus the of Mars in the title now -here), and now here’s some breath-taking concept art. I have always felt, now a few years after its release, that Wall*E is one of the finest animated films we’ve seen in CG, and it looks like his live-action debut is going to be equally as stunning.

Andrew Stanton explains his approach to the film: “I looked at things like Apocaplyto and Rome and even things like Shogun and Lawrence of Arabia, things that as a viewer I could accept as having a level of historical research. They give me a sense of what it would be like in that land and in that age. So then you ask, ‘Well, what if we just did our Martian research really, really well and treated it as a period film?’ There are so many times and places in history in our world that I just don’t know anything about, and when I learn about them they’re always fascinating. I don’t need a predisposed interest in them if they are presented well. So we said, ‘We’ll treat it this way, we won’t treat it like some fantasy being fulfilled by a fan.’ We tried to make it feel like we’re going with the story of what really happened.”

John Carter invades theaters March 9th, 2012.

Source: Collider