Taylor Kitsch and Lynn Collins will star in “John Carter of Mars,” the adaptation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs book series that Andrew Stanton is directing for Disney.

The movie is a big step for Stanton, who as one of Pixar’s top creators directed the company’s animated films “Finding Nemo” and “WALL-E” but will now helm his first live-action feature, and for Disney, which hopes the big-budget production will launch a franchise on the scale of “Pirates of the Caribbean.”

“Carter” centers on a civil war who veteran finds himself mysteriously transported to Mars, where his involvement with warring races of the dying planet force him to rediscover his humanity.

Kitsch will play the title character, Carter, while Collins is playing Dejah Thoris, the heir to the throne of Mars’ Helium kingdom.

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We’re not big fans of the idea of using Twitter as a journalistic tool, but it’s hard to ignore when an actress like Lynn Collins, last seen as Silverfox in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, “tweets” something like:

“celebrating john carter of mars!!!!!!!”

Sure, she could be celebrating having finally gotten around to reading Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic series of fantasy/sci-fi novels about a Civil War vet from Virginia who ends up transplanted on Mars, where he has all sorts of adventures. We think she’s talking about being cast in John Carter of Mars, the live-action movie based on those novels that’s long been in development at Disney that will be helmed by Andrew Stanton, the Oscar-winning director of Pixar Animation’s WALL•E and Finding Nemo from an adapted script by Michael Chabon (Spider-Man 2, “The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Klay”). It will be the first live-action movie directed by the Pixar vet, as well as the first live-action movie produced in conjunction with Pixar Animation.

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Here is the video from Lynn’s sexy GQ photoshoot.