STORY: New Hollywood heart-throb Taylor Kitsch was physically exhausted during his role in action movie "John Carter." The 30-year-old star, his cast-mates and director Andrew Stanton premiered the film in London on Monday (March 1).<br/> <br />Kitsch said production was gruelling.<br/> <br />"I mean you're in arguably every scene of the film. You shoot 106 out of 106 days so - it wears on you. Six day weeks when you're working 15 hours a day, it chips away, but it's worth it."<br/> <br />The Disney movie is based on classic novel, "A Princess of Mars," by Edgar Rice Burroughs (writer of the "Tarzan" series) and centres on ex-military captain John Carter, who finds a mysterious portal from Earth to Mars and becomes embroiled in a civil war that threatens to destroy the red planet.<br/> <br />The sci-fi flick is Oscar-winning director and writer Andrew Stanton's directorial debut into live action. He said the live scenes were like nothing he'd experienced before in his largely studio-based films.<br/> <br />"It was like night and day. I feel like a person who has only had an office job and has never been camping in their life. I mean I was outdoors for so many days in the desert you just kind of had to learn to endure. But that was part of the thrill. I didn't realise I was an outdoorsy person and I realise I am."<br/> <br />Stanton said he was a fan of the books as a child and had been waiting 35 years to make "John Carter".<br/> <br />He won Best Animated Feature Oscars for "Wall-E" in 2008 and "Finding Nemo" in 2003, and has written screenplays for the "Toy Story" series, "Monster's Inc." and "A Bug's Life."
