Angry Films Working with Frazetta on "John Carter of Mars"

I have a few contacts in studios down in Los Angeles now, and when I initially heard about Angry Films' plans to put Edgar Rice Burroughs' "John Carter of Mars" on the big screen, I thought I had some insane scoop. As it turns out, there's already a Wikipedia entry about the project:

As of October 2005, Jon Favreau is scheduled to direct the film. Robert Rodriguez and, later, Kerry Conran were once attached to direct but have moved on. The script was written by Mark Protosevich and rewritten by Ehren Kruger.
Paramount has declined to renew their option on the rights as of August2006, and it is rumored that the Walt Disney Co. is in negotiations toacquire the rights to the property for development through PixarAnimation.^[1]
Even if Disney have acquired the rights for the movie, it will mostlikely be made be the new and still not named animation film company atDisney, where Robert Zemeckis, Jack Rapke and Steve Starkey's ImageMovers
will be absorbed. A studio that will specialize in making computeranimated motion pictures based on performance capture technology.

This passage makes it sound like the whole thing is going to be animated, which could either go really well (Monster House) or extremely poorly. Jon Favreau's hidden gem of a children's film, Zathura, had some of the best special effects techniques I've ever seen. On the other hand, Angry Films is responsible for the inexplicably execrable League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, the most ham-fisted waste of an idiot-proof comic book property in the history of cinema.

However, most exciting for me, Frank Frazetta has been brought on board as a production designer, meaning there will likely be swoopy headpieces, tiny bikinis, massive monsters and eye-searing palettes for all!