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I'm hoping and praying that GHOSTS OF MARS will be as cool as some other John Carpenters other movies. I just watched THE THING again, for the 1,001th time, and am hoping that GHOSTS OF MARS is as good as a movie as THE THING. By the way, shooting starts on the movie this month! From various sites but pulled from CINESCAPE.com. 6.9.00

Love Talks 'Mars' Courtney Love is updating info regarding the upcoming John Carpenter directed Ghosts of Mars. On the official Hole website, the musician/actress talked about the project, saying, "I'm doing rehearsals and reading for my John Carpenter movie with Ice Cube (who had a baby today) tomorrow. I have to work out every day for four hours, and I want to squeeze in time with Sam and Eric this week for more songs as I'm rehearsing. They cast Clea Duvall (who was in Girl, Interrupted) and Joanna Cassidy (from Blade Runner), and I think Pam Grier (from Jackie Brown), so it's a really cool cast."

Mars is made of RAWK!

It seems as if Courtney Love just might star in GHOSTS OF MARS after all. Remember people, Courtney's a "serious" actress who requires, no, DEMANDS that million dollar plus salary for her starring role. GOM begins filming this June. From CHUD.com. 4.10.00

Courtney Love is in final negotiations for a seven-figure payday to star opposite Ice Cube and Jason Statham in Screen Gems' "John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars." The project is targeted to start shooting in early summer. <SNIP> "Ghosts" will be released domestically by Sony's niche label Screen Gems, with most territories handled by Columbia TriStar International. Screen Gems executive vp Clint Culpepper is overseeing the film for the studio."

Shooting slated to begin

According to Cinescape.com, shooting on GHOSTS OF MARS is slated to begin shooting in June, a mere two months away. 4.8.00

Can I be the first to say that I don't get it?

What's the deal with this movie? It seems that every time I turn around, another musician has joined the cast. Am I correct in assuming that usually movies hire actors and not musicians?

Seriously though, this movie could really turn out to to be something cool. Thanks goes to Michael Summers. My only question is if Ice will play a member of the rescue mission or the suspected killer. From Cinescape.com. 4.4.00

Ice Cube has signed on to Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars project. According to Variety, the actor turned rapper will take the film's male lead role. Set in the far future, the film tells the story of a rescue mission to save Earth colonists on Mars from a vicious killer. The crew soon learns that the real killers are the ancient violent spirits of the Martian dead who possess humans driving them to do terrible things. Production on the project is scheduled to start in June. Courtney Love and Whoopee Goldberg have previously been rumored to be joining the film's cast as well.

Yep, there's a great big Hole in Mars

Ummm, I don't get it. Is she a Singer/ Actress or an Actress/ Singer. Maybe she should go nameless. (As the guys over at CHUD.com pointed out, wasn't THE QUICK AND THE DEAD a "girl western?)

Still, this film seems to have some potential; it's directed by John Carpenter for God's sake! From Hole Music.com . 3.28.00

Courtney To Attack Ghosts of Mars
Love confirmed with us that she will indeed be starring in John Carpenter's highly-anticipated Ghosts of Mars as Melanie, an interplanetary police squad officer 175 years in the future. Courtney also mentioned that fellow musician/actor Ice Cube (Three Kings, Next Friday) will co-star in what she calls "the only girl western I've seen... ever." The film is slated for a 2001 release.

Hole in Mars?

Hmmmm. Criminal teams up with a group on an alien world to fight evil. Sounds a lot like PITCH BLACK. With thanks to Tourdemars. From YAHOO.com. 3.15.00

COURTNEY LOVE eyes Mars

Now that Disney has proven there is box office life on the red planet with "Mission to Mars," comes word that a neat cast is in the offing for another expedition, "John Carpenter's Ghost of Mars," a pic orbiting Sony's mid-budget Screen Gems division. Dish hears Courtney Love looks likely for the role of a butt-kicking leader of a expedition to Mars, Whoopi Goldberg is a possible as a science officer. They go to the planet planning to hunt down a guy alleged to have killed his fellow colonists in atrocities actually committed by an army of colonists possessed by a homicidal ghost of an ancient Mars civilization. The framed guy helps the team kick Martian tail. Dish hears Carpenter wants Jason Statham for the male lead. He starred in the Guy Ritchie-directed "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels," and just wrapped Ritchie's followup "Diamonds" with Brad Pitt. Screen Gems favored a better known lead, though other studios are kicking the tires.

Here's what we know so far:

I hate to say this, but the movie sounds really like something that John Carpender would do and really cool...

The story takes place some 175 years in the future in a dusty frontier mining town on Mars. A small squad of police have been sent to transfer an extremely dangerous criminal, Desolation Williams, back to the main administrative Martian city, Chryse. Our heroine, Melanie, is second in command of this squad. What no one realizes is that mining operations have uncovered --and disturbed-- the ruins of an ancient Martian civilization and unleashed a kind of spiritual doomsday defense system that will relentlessly destroy any alien presence (in this case, Earthlings) inhabiting Mars. When the cops arrive at this remote outpost, no one but the criminals locked away in the local jail have survived... And the "Martian Ghosts" are determined not to let them get away.