"John Carter". Early last century Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote a whole series of books ( I suppose you'd now call them "Steam Punk Genre" ) about an American Civil War veteran who ends up on Mars
Great reading.
After the books came out there were a couple of attempts to get a movie going about John Carter, but .....didn't eventuate.
About a decade ago, give or take a few years, Disney bit the bullet and produced the movie. It's a GOOD film. But Post Vietnam War till recent times Sci Fi blockbusters were being released thick and fast, and audiences and reviewers drew parallels to "Star Wars", "Avatar" etc etc, and ultimately didn't appreciate it. Fickle so and so's.
Burroughs work is the root of the Sci Fi genre. Everything old is new again.
P.S. With apologies to H G Wells and Jules Verne.