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What Killed The Mars Movie Fad?

People have been making movies about Mars for decades, but the real boom in semi-realistic Mars movies started about a decade ago — and ended pretty soon afterward. A spate of movies about Mars, some of which aimed to show the first human exploration of the planet, started around 1999 and stopped in 2002... just before NASA started launching a ton of Mars probes and President Bush talked about sending humans to Mars. What killed the Mars movie? More »

4:30 PM on Tue Mar 11 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
4,815 views, 44 comments

Latest by Bob_of_Mars: @goldfarb: They're going to make it live action. So it actually Does matter who plays her. IIRC they are trying not to make it PG, but I don't remember where I heard that. Anyways, hopefully they get more »