The estate of Edgar Rice Burroughs must really like Genesis or something.

Yeah, it looks like Stone Punk.

It's "pre-punk." From the wild pioneer days of science fiction pulps, when there were no "punks" because sci-fi itself was novelty enough, and it did crazy shit like having a guy find a barbarian society on Mars where his enemies were green snake people with two torsos stacked on top of each other.

And this was okay with everybody, because folks back then remembered a time when cars and airplanes were considered just as ridiculous. So was it that farfetched to think that one day, we'd all be John Carter, stepping unto amazing new worlds where adventure and discovery awaited behind every red rock?

Good times.

I feel that it's important to also point out that a major feature of the books is that most everyone is naked all the time. Because naturalism was a *thing* back then.

Sadly that's not going to make it into the movie.

The princess of mars was wearing about 100% more clothing than she did in her most modest moment in the books.

Der, I mean 100x

Conran left back when this was being developed by Paramount, and the project went through several more potential directors before the rights lapsed and Disney acquired it (or re-acquired, rather, since they were toying with this back in the 80's too).

Development hell is a harsh mistress.

Considering that Bob Clampett wanted to make it as the first feature-length animated film, it's been one hell of a development hell.