The John Carter Super Bowl trailer took an odd approach to selling Disney’s pricey literary adaptation, which the Mouse House has poured some $250 million and several years worth of time and creative effort into. Considering just how massive in scale the special effects-driven adventure is, one might have expected a TV promo that played up the film more as a visually-majestic sci-fi epic treatment of Edgar Rice Burrough’s famous source material.

For those who are in the mood for more John Carter eye candy than what the Super Bowl TV spot served up, you need look no further than our new gallery of high-resolution stills from the film.

John Carter is the first of two impending blockbusters headlined by Friday Night Lights‘ Taylor Kitsch (the other being Battleship) and sees the TV hunk appear alongside his X-Men Origins: Wolverine costar Lynn Collins, who plays the lovely Princess Dejah ...

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