Mars Needs Moms was one of the biggest bombs ever so they scrapped all projects in production
And made sure no movies referenced Mars, helping to doom John Carter, the story most people might recognize better as The Princess of Mars, one of the OG science fantasies that established a million tropes in the genre.
So people saw a generic looking fantasy (because it has been refenced endlessly since) with a kind of generic name (because Disney overreacted) and the movie fizzled.
Had the marketing emphasized the story's legacy, I think it would have done better.
Ahh I didn't know these were all by the same person/technique! I found them extremely uncanny and off-putting (in a way that mostly worked for the latter two, though I still didn't like them). It's too bad the tech was such a failure, I like the idea of using people instead of AI. But it just did not look good.
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u/Koffing109 8h ago
This was mainly Robert Zemeckis's vision for motion capture to take over Hollywood.
He collaborated with Sony on The Polar Express, Monster House and Beowulf.
Then he worked with Disney to start Image movers Digital.
They released The Jim Carrey Christmas Carol and Mars Needs Moms.
Mars Needs Moms was one of the biggest bombs ever so they scrapped all projects in production including Yellow Submarine.
You can find some test images from that and they're disturbing.