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Kitsch has put the 'John Carter' disaster behind him  May 17,
2012|Amy Kaufman   • Taylor Kitsch stars in "Battleship." Taylor
Kitsch stars in "Battleship." (Ricardo DeAratanha, Los…)  Three
days after Walt Disney Studios said it would incur a
$200-million loss on "John Carter," the film's star, Taylor
Kitsch, was still licking his wounds. He had just returned to
his Beverly Hills hotel, cheeks flushed following a boxing
workout where a fellow gym rat had tried to console him about
the box-office dud.  For The Record  "This guy came up to me and
goes, 'Next one. Don't worry about it, you'll be fine,' " Kitsch
chafed. "I'm like, 'I'm not worried about it, man. I didn't
market the movie. I didn't finance it. I gave everything I had
to the film.' It sucks to feel like you have to be defensive.
But if someone's gonna take the fall, it's gonna be me."  Now,
two months later, Kitsch has another big-budget movie riding on
his shoulders: Universal Picture