Disney loses John Carter rights, but new owner is pretty sure you want more
After the disappointing returns of John Carter, Disney has let its rights to the source material expire and returned the property to Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc., which isn’t about to let something like a massive flop get in the way of trying to immediately do the same thing again. (This isn’t terribly surprising, given that it’s a company dedicated solely to wringing profits from an author who’s been dead for 64 years.) Not content to let Disney be the only one forced to take a $200 million write-down, the estate is offering some other lucky studio the chance be the next in line, and audiences another opportunity to see a guy leap comically large distances on Mars.