John Carter is a 2012 English-language Action Adventure film written by Andrew Stanton, Mark Andrews, Michael Chabon and Edgar Rice Burroughs. The movie is directed by Andrew Stanton and produced by Jim Morris, Colin Wilson and Lindsey Collins under the banner of Walt Disney Pictures. Critics focus on the decision to remove the words Princess and Mars from the title out of fear of alienating young men and women, leaving prospective audiences to try to deduce what the film was about from trailers and ads that were similarly uninformative about its characters and plot, its place in the development of science fiction, and who had made it. John carter stars Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Samantha Morton, Mark Strong, Ciar N Hinds, Dominic West and Julian Stone. The screenplay is written by Andrew Stanton, Mark Andrews and Michael Chabon which is inspired from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The music was composed by Michael Giacchino. Cinematography was done by Dan Mindel and editing by Eric Zumbrunnen. The motion picture has a running time of 132 minutes. It was released on 8th March 2012. John Carter was made on a budget of $250 million and it was a hit at box office gross of $284 million. Distribution rights for the movie were acquired by Walt Disney Studios. Critics focus on the decision to remove the words Princess and Mars from the title out of fear of alienating young men and women, leaving prospective audiences to try to deduce what the film was about from trailers and ads that were similarly uninformative about its characters and plot, its place in the development of science fiction, and who had made it.