Taylor Kitsch, best known as the hard-partying-but-soulful Riggins from Friday Night Lights, has been cast as Edgar Rice Burroughs' interplanetary hero John Carter, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Last seen squaring off against Wolverine in this summer's X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Kitsch will play a Civil War veteran whose skills as a swordsman (and lover) serve him well when he ends up on Mars.