{"id":35653,"date":"2024-04-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35653"},"modified":"2024-04-20T18:52:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T22:52:55","slug":"mars-attacks-1996-directed-by-tim-burton-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=35653","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mars Attacks&#8221; (1996) directed by Tim Burton \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z042124zview_marsattacks.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Mars Attacks <\/strong><\/em>(1996)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Tim Burton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Jonathan Gems, Tim Burton<\/strong> (uncredited) based on Topps <em>Mars Attacks!<\/em> trading cards<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Jack Nicholson, Pierce Brosnan, Sarah Jessica Parker, Annette Bening, Glenn Close, Danny DeVito, Martin Short, Michael J. Fox, Rod Steiger, Lukas Haas, Natalie Portman, Jim Brown, Lisa Marie, Sylvia Sidney, Paul Winfield, Pam Grier, Jack Black, Joe Don Baker, Christina Applegate \u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>Tom Jones<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Nice planet. We&#8217;ll take it!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An armada of Martian ships have come to Earth.\u00a0 At the first meeting between the Martian and US Ambassador and accident makes the Martians think that they are under attack.\u00a0 The aliens then decide to take over the Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Let the fun begin!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tim Burton directs an all-star cast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tim Burton pitched the idea by showing Warner Bros. the <em>Mars Attacks!<\/em> trading cards released in 1962.\u00a0 The cards featured art by Wally Wood and Norman Saunders.\u00a0 The card set told of a Martian invasion of Earth.\u00a0 Because the cards were aimed at the kiddie market, many parents felt that the violence was too graphic.\u00a0 This led to a limited distribution.\u00a0 The <em>Mars Attacks!<\/em> cards have become collector&#8217;s items.\u00a0 In the 1980s, Topps revisited the <em>Mars Attacks!<\/em> by re-releasing the card set, new <em>Mars Attacks!<\/em> cards and comic books.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mars Attacks!<\/em> marks Sylvia Sidney&#8217;s final film appearance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although Tim Burton co-wrote the film with Jonathan Gems, but gave Gems full credit.\u00a0 Jonathan Gems wrote the <em>Mars Attacks!<\/em> novelization and dedicated the book to Tim Burton.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\"><em><strong>Mars Attacks <\/strong><\/em>(1996) rates 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z042124zview_marsattacks2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mars Attacks (1996) Director: Tim Burton Screenplay: Jonathan Gems, Tim Burton (uncredited) based on Topps Mars Attacks! trading cards Stars:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,53,63,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35654,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35653\/revisions\/35654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}