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Ireland born acting heavyweight Ciarán Hinds who is known for roles in films including Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, Amazing Grace and the epic finale to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has said that the forthcoming Disney blockbuster John Carter will be a difficult film for director Andrew Stanton to "pull off".
Hinds appears as Tardos Mors in the science fiction epic alongside James Purefoy and tells Digital Spy "Andrew Stanton came to see a play I was doing three years ago at the National. God love him, he sat through a big Russian epic.
I met him afterwards and he'd seen Rome and he wanted to use some of us, because he wanted these people on Mars - Jeddaks - to be almost Roman.
I then realised that this is the Andrew Stanton who did Finding Nemo and WALL-E. Those were two of the most beautiful films I know - they touch adults and children alike."
He added that Stanton has a bit of a juggling act on his hands "I think John Carter is going to be a difficult thing to pull off, but he's a very brilliant man.
It's moving three different things. It's moving animation with computer digitalisation and real live-action. How you do that seamlessly I've no idea, and then how that reads through this big interplanetary story... it remains to be seen."
John Carter comes to cinemas on March 9 and features Taylor Kitsch, Bryan Cranston,, Willem Dafoe, Lynn Collins, James Purefoy, Mark Strong, Dominic West, Daryl Sabara, Samantha Morton, Thomas Haden Church and Jonathan Hyde.
JOHN CARTER BLASTS INTO CINEMAS ON MARCH 9