New 'John Carter' Banners Have 'Star Wars' Vibe

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This week has been absolutely brimming with new material from "[url="http://www.mtv.com/movies/movie/430400/moviemain.jhtml"]John Carter[/url]," and today's obligatory release has arrived -- and they are both vaguely reminiscent of "Star Wars."

Yesterday, [url="http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2011/12/01/john-carter-trailer-2/"]the second trailer premiered[/url], and photos and posters have been sent out at a dizzying pace over the past week. Now, three new banners for the sci-fi epic show off some of the scenes from the just-released trailer.

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We see John Carter facing off with not one, but two white apes in the the surprisingly "[url="http://www.mtv.com/movies/movie/214367/moviemain.jhtml"]Attack of the Clones[/url]"-esque Colosseum. [url="http://www.mtv.com/movies/person/448882/personmain.jhtml"]Taylor Kitsch[/url] as the legendary Civil War captain transported to Mars takes out one of the apes during the trailer, but a second ape could be another question.

The two other images focus on Carter and his two main companions during the film, one an alien Thark from Mars and the other, a princess played by [url="http://www.mtv.com/movies/person/304547/personmain.jhtml"]Lynn Collins[/url]. In the second two images of the three, the companions ride across the desert on creatures that look strikingly like the dewbacks from "[url="http://www.mtv.com/movies/movie/33140/moviemain.jhtml"]A New Hope[/url]."

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The original Edgar Rice Burroughs novels created so many of the images that sci-fi movies of later generations pulled from, and now the film adaptation seems to borrow from those movies. We've already seen imagery that looks a lot like different scenes from both "Star Wars" trilogies and echoes of post-"[url="http://www.mtv.com/movies/movie/301495/moviemain.jhtml"]Avatar[/url]" Hollywood.

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