Andrew Stanton told SCI FI WIRE that his next project (under Disney, not Pixar) JOHN CARTER OF MARS, will be his first live-action film.
"[I'm] deep into it," Stanton said in an exclusive interview at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association award ceremony in Century City, Calif., on Monday, where he accepted the award for best picture of 2008 for WALL-E. "I'm on my next draft of it. We're in preproduction art-wise, and we're starting to talk to actors. So it's full bore."
The film, based on the books by Edgar Rice Burroughs is set for a 2012 release. When asked if the film would be animation, live-action or a mix of the two, Stanton at long last said, "Yeah, I think that's the only way. I mean, there are so many creatures and characters that half of it's going to be CG whether you want it to be [or not], just to realize some of these images that are in the book. But it will feel real. The whole thing will feel very, very believable."
