John Carter might have Martians , fly ship and aphrodisiacal young lads with long hair — but the real star of the show is his giant hound , Woola .
So when we model down with director Andrew Stanton at the John Carter junket , we found out everything we possibly could about the speedy bow-wow who will stole our hearts . Plus get a look at some early concept art of Woola , when John Carter was a lot more Confederate - looking .
Tell us about our pet character in John Carter — Woola !
Andrew Stanton : Woola is what Edgar Rice Burroughs strike as a Calot . They ’re these sort of pony - sized , big lounge lizard desert frog with ten legs . Everybody mean he has six , but there ’s four little little ones hidden under there — and they can move fabulously fast across the desert .
Why make Woola just like an Earth hotdog ?
There was a talk , for for a while there , that we needed to make it [ Woola ] a little more alien - esque in how it looked , and how it sounded . But I think that it was so fantastical that it needed some grounding , “ So we ’re just going to go as straight dog as we can with it . ” Because I mean that is something that is very familiar — it ’s something you may connect to . The same mode that you find the human qualities inTars Tarkas , this big green four - armed character . You discover the animal , dog , humanity ’s best Quaker calibre in Woola . So we pull anything . We pulled anything we could to help us associate it with a puppy .
Learn to speak Thark with Willem Dafoe , the alien male monarch of John Carter
Was there one finicky moment that stood out to you as Woola ’s honest ?
The one that form of keyed in for us , it ’s really one of the last shots of the moving picture . He ’s just sit down there just with his mouth open and his tongue wagging , and you assume he ’s listening . But he could just be mindlessly blanking out . But that ’s what dogs are like . You hue on them all this bright thought that they are mind , and have in all this input that you ’re giving them . In a weird mode less is more .
Here ’s a turgid look at some early Woola conception art from The Art of John Carter .
John Carter attain field of operations on March 9 . Full disclosure : Disney pay for io9 ’s travel and other expense at this expedition .
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