Monday, June 15, 2009

Introducing the Male Star of Tomorrow

Taylor Kitsch (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) has been tapped to play the coveted lead role in Disney’s John Carter of Mars, which will be the first live-action effort from Andrew Stanton, the Oscar-winning director of WALL-E and Finding Nemo.

Kitsch could not have asked for a better guy to lead him into Moviestardomville.

The movie, a big-budget adaptation of the series by Edgar Rice Burroughs, tells the story of a civil war veteran (Kitsch) who is transported to Mars to fight in an epic war between the planet’s opposing races.

Disney is aiming for an early 2010 start date, so I’m going to guess you’ll see your first Taylor Kitsch summer tentpole the following summer. And you will love it (and him).

Photo: Blindie.com.

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