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John Carter is a 2012 American science fiction action-adventure film directed by Andrew Stanton, written by Stanton, Mark Andrews, and Michael Chabon, and based on A Princess of Mars, the first book in the Barsoom series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
John Carter of Mars is a fictional Virginian soldier who acts as the initial protagonist of the Barsoom stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs.A veteran of the American Civil War, he is transported to the planet Mars, called Barsoom by its inhabitants, where he becomes a warrior battling various mythological beasts, alien armies and malevolent foes.
The Finnish filmmaker Aarne Tarkas (originally Aarne Saastamoinen) was an aficionado of the John Carter books and took his name from Tars Tarkas.. In Kage Baker's 2003 novel The Empress of Mars, human colonists on Mars have a Christmas-like celebration, and a settler appears costumed as "Uncle Tars Tarkas", giving gifts to children as if he were Father Christmas or Santa Claus.
Carter worked with Micky Keen and Robin Shaw and as a result of this collaboration they released two albums, Men From The Ministry and Midsummer Nights Dreaming (2005). In late 2005, Carter released the compilation album ; John Carter – A Rose by any Other Name (2005).
John Carter is a modern-day U.S. Army sniper serving in Afghanistan, wounded in the line of duty and used in a teleportation experiment wherein he is transferred to Barsoom, a planet in the Alpha Centauri stellar system, far from the Sun-based Solar System of Earth, where he exhibits the ability to leap amazing distances.
John Carter (1832-1916), English organist and composer, brother of William Carter; John Carter (jazz musician) (1929–1991), American jazz musician; John Carter (English musician) (born 1942), English singer-songwriter; John S. Carter (1945–2011), American music executive, producer, and songwriter, often known simply as Carter
John Carter of Mars is the eleventh and final book in the Barsoom series by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs. It is not a novel, but rather a collection of two John Carter of Mars stories. The first story was originally published in 1940 by Whitman as a Better Little Book entitled John Carter of Mars .
Carter also sang all the vocals and played the guitar on the record. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] The song was released by the British record producer on the Penny Farthing Records label. Although the record was unsuccessful in the UK , it reached the #2 in Germany , spent six months on the charts there, and sold a million copies.