Ninjas Met Dafoe and Asked: How Long Does It Take To Train To Be a Martian?
I met Willem Dafoe today and, while we spent much of the time talking about his upcoming film, Daybreakers, I’m going to skip right to some quick and dirty information about a film that he’s about to start, John Carter of Mars. Carter is based on a a series of books by Edgar Rice Burroughs (of Tarzan fame) and Dafoe is signed up to star as a Martian Warrior who befriends Carter. Here’s what Dafoe had to say:
“Next week I go to London to start to train and prep for it and I think the 18th is the beginning of the production. I don’t think I shoot until February but I start preparing next week.”
When I pressed him to tell us what kind of training, Dafoe said:
“Well, I play a 10 Foot Martian Warrior, so … I don’t yet know how a 10-foot Martian Warrior fights, or speaks, or what kind of rigs I’ll have on or won’t have on. It’s kind of a complicated process.”
By our calculations, if Dafoe’s arriving for training the week of Jan 11th but not start shooting his stuff until February, he’ll be in Martian training for another three to four weeks. Must be tough to become a Martian warrior. When I suggested that maybe being a Martian was similar to his avant-garde theater work, Dafoe replied:
“It is. Some of the discipline and some of the challenges are similar.”
I’m sure the filmmakers are hoping that John Carter will be a lot more popular than avant-garde theater, however.
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