anyone familiar with the source material, isnt this guy from like..the mid 30's? Disney is clearly trying to make this accessible to younger audiences, but before the comics code, batman was packin pistols and breakin necks. I hope it isnt neutered for a rating.
The books are from the '20s to '40s or so, but the character's supposed to be from the 1860s. And of course, in the books nobody on that planet wears much of anything as far as clothing goes, but they changed that for the movie obviously. So yes, it has been somewhat neutered for rating. I expect more than that, too. For a different example, how many Tarzan movies mention stuff the first book does, like how Tarzan gets his loincloth early in the book when he sneaks up behind a black guy in the jungle, murders him, and takes his?
The reasons for removing the degree of nudity in the Mars books (they really do only wear harnesses and jewelery pretty much) is different from that, but the reasons are comparable.
As for this film, I'm hoping it'll be entertaining, but we'll see. The trailers look okay though probably not amazing.
He's pretty cool in the book, but described as being much more fierce looking and acting. Probably one of the things they had to neuter the hell out of to make it PG (such as everyone wandering around naked).
Even the covers to older printings of the books seem to usually have added more clothes to the characters than the text makes clear they're wearing, to be fair. I guess it's sort of like Conan in reverse?