Chabon writing John Carter of Mars!

I saw this at /Film and I love it! One of my favorite writers, Michael Chabon, is writing the script for Disney’s John Carter of Mars. I’m a pulp collector, and the Burroughs stuff (lost of Argosy, Amazing Stories, and Blue Book) are among my favorites.

At his website Chabon says:

“I’ve been hired to do some revisions to an already strong script by Andrew Stanton and Mark Andrews,” Chabon said. “I wrote my original screenplay The Martian Agent back in 1995 because I wished I could do [Edgar Rice] Burroughs’s Barsoom. So this is pretty much a dream come true for me.”

    
You can actually read an excerpt of Chabon short fiction (published in McSweeneys) called The Martian Agent: A Planetary Romance.

Most people know Chabon for this Pulitzer winning novel The Amazing Website of Kavalier and Clay (which inspired Brian K. – of comicbook and Lost fame) Vaughan’s The Escapists), but his entire catalog is worth a look, and his most recent novel The Yiddish Policemen’s Union was a beast on the book awards circuit. Earlier this year I posted a trailer to an adaptation of another of Chabon’s books The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (another nice novel).

Wiki says it has 2012 date attached to it. Very excited about this!

    
_{A publisher, publicist, author, studio, or artist and have news or announcements you think should be noted at BSCreview? Email us at admin@BSCreview.com and let us decide!}