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So, as you may know, the film John Carter was one of the worsts flops in history. From what I've been given to understand, this had as much or more to do with various production issues (The director never having worked in Live Action before, the same director believing the franchise had the cultural cachet it ought to, rather than the far lesser cachet it actually does, a power struggle amongst the Disney execs, ignorant reviewers decrying it as derivative of works inspired by the source material, etc.)

What would need to be different in order for more-or-less the same film to be released at more-or-less the same time, and not bomb miserably? And how could those differences be brought about?
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