John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood

How did Disney's film become a calamity of historic proportions? Michael Sellers, a Hollywood filmmaker himself, saw the disaster approaching and fought to save the project — but without success. In *John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood*, Sellers details every blunder and betrayal that led to the doom of the motion picture — and that left countless Hollywood careers in the wreckage.

*John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood* examines every aspect of Andrew Stanton's adaptation and Disney's marketing campaign and seeks to answer the question: What went wrong? It includes a history of Hollywood's 100-year effort to bring the film to the screen, and examines the global fan movement spawned by the film.