{"id":1181,"date":"2007-04-01T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/april-fools-brad-bird-to-helm-john-carter-of-mars"},"modified":"2007-04-01T14:34:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-01T14:34:00","slug":"april-fools-brad-bird-to-helm-john-carter-of-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/april-fools-brad-bird-to-helm-john-carter-of-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"April Fools: Brad Bird to Helm John Carter of Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

UPDATE<\/span><\/span>: This was another elaborate April Fools joke that fooled a lot of people too. This one even fooled Moriaty at AICN<\/span><\/a> and the guys over at \/Film<\/a> as well as a few other little blogs etc. I think the thing about this one that fooled people was the amount of things in it that could have been fact. As we know Brad said he is directing a live-action film, Mark Fergus was scripting it at one stage when it was at Paramount, Disney\/Pixar were trying to aquire the rights to it etc. Anyway, APRIL<\/span> FOOLS<\/span>!<\/span><\/p>\n

As the first news post after the aquisition of Upcoming Pixar by The Walt Disney Company, I have been given the green light to announce Pixar’s 2009 project.<\/p>\n

Pixar will delve into the area of VFX<\/span> and live action with Brad Bird creating his first live-action feature length film, from the John Carter of Mars<\/span> series. Pixar will provide the visual effects for the film with Brad Bird directing and Mark Fergus<\/a> will co-direct and write the script. Bob Peterson, the voice of Roz from Monster’s Inc.<\/i> will co-produce with John Walker (producer of The Incredibles<\/i>) and John Lasseter will executively produce.<\/p>\n

That’s all the information I have right now, but more will be revealed in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATE: This was another elaborate April Fools joke that fooled a lot of people too. This one even fooled Moriaty at AICN and the guys over at \/Film as well as a few other little blogs etc. I think the thing about this one that fooled people was the amount of things in it that …<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nApril Fools: Brad Bird to Helm John Carter of Mars - Upcoming Pixar<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/april-fools-brad-bird-to-helm-john-carter-of-mars\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"April Fools: Brad Bird to Helm John Carter of Mars - Upcoming Pixar\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"UPDATE: This was another elaborate April Fools joke that fooled a lot of people too. 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