During my standard morning routine of skimming various news sites I find this article on ksl.com of all places. Pixar/Disney will be filming and animating John Carter of Mars in Utah.

Utah’s new movie incentives bill has landed the state its first big-time motion picture project.

Take the Walt Disney company, combine it with Pixar and Utah scenery, and you’re going to have the movie “John Carter of Mars.” It’s based on a series of books about a Civil War vet transported to the Red Planet.

Now this is great news and KSL only cares about the fact that it will help the local economy. They completely ignore the entire geek aspect. We should all be very excited. And trust a robot who spent months in a trailer in South Eastern Utah there is no better place in the world to substitute for Mars.