Right then, that's fucked it. How many years do you reckon it will be before they decide the "franchise"(*) needs a gritty, reimagined reboot for a more modern age and they wipe the slate clear and remake the original? Probably after a long chain of steadily worse films that come out every three years to increasing indifference.
Wouldn't it just have been cheaper to have done this before making John Carter and then not bothered to make it?
(*) I really, really, really fucking hate the modern mis-use of this word to refer to film or computer game series. Anybody who uses it front of me in person will get kicked in the cock or vaj (delete as applicable).