JOHN CARTER Ranks as 2012’s Most Anticipated Movie

Holiday moviegoers watched new trailers for many of 2012’s top fantasy movies including The Dark Knight Rises, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Men In Black 3 and Prometheus in addition to previously released trailers for The Hunger Games, The Avengers and John Carter.

      A readers survey at the Hero Complex blog of The L.A. Times ranked JOHN CARTER as the most anticipated movie of 2012 with The Dark Knight Rises and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in the second and third slots.

     In an earlier interview, Mark Strong, who plays the alien leader Matai Shang, told fans to expect a dazzling mix of sci-fi and a period backdrop from director Andrew Stanton, making his first live-action feature after a series of Pixar films.

     "Andrew's such a great storyteller," Strong said. "We're in very safe hands and you know he's going to make something exceptional. The thing that I think will distinguish it, which I'm most excited by, is that even though it takes place in space it's science fiction. It's from a Victorian point of view. Because Edgar Rice Burrows novels were at the turn of the century and his perception of space was different from ours. The Martians, for example, wear breast plates and swords and helmets with wings on them."