Japanese John Carter Trailer Explains How He Got To Barsoom, Sort Of

One of the biggest flaws in author Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars series is that he never really does all that good a job of explaining how John Carter gets to Mars in the first place. Maybe he’s just more interested in what happens on the planet itself or maybe he just didn’t have any good ideas, whatever the reason, it probably won’t make it easy for the movie to explain it.

The following Japanese trailer for John Carter attempts to show us his transition from Earth to Mars, along with his war-torn back story. Watch…