John Carpenter's GHOSTS OF MARS is go!!!

Hey folks... Harry here. A few months back I had lunch with Sandy King (Carpenter's Producer and Wife... the King in STORMKING Productions) and Moriarty and we talked ever so briefly about GHOSTS OF MARS which I'm sure you have noticed hitting the trades today. At that point in time she was in the midst of securing some foreign money to make the package even more attractive to Columbia, plus set up a long term line of finance for John Carpenter to continue to make films to kick our asses.

Also at that time, John was still wrapping up the script... it wasn't quite finished... but the title... GHOSTS OF MARS was there. For me, it instantly conjured memories of Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter series, though this has nothing to do with that. Also, she told me this was John's first original (non-sequel) script sense THEY LIVE (one of them uber-fucking-cool movies of yore). She was having trouble describing the film in the vaguest terms possible, but she kept coming back to the fact that it would be a 100% balls to the wall Carpenter film.

All I know is the plotline is sci-fi/thriller... it's set 200 years from now on Mars and has Martian ghosts. So that would mix in horror... as I instantly classify all ghost as being a sure fire 100% horror genre button. So it's a Sci-Fi/Thriller/Horror type a thing... and it's supposed to be wild.

Hopefully, I'll have more for you folks soon on this project. It looks like John is gonna start lensing around the same time Spielberg shoots MINORITY REPORT and Rodriguez starts on SPY KIDS.... so March is just one of them cool months I suppose...