View Full Version : Tarzan preps big-screen return, 'Pirates of the Caribbean' style


Brian Damage
12-04-2008, 01:52 AM
Tarzan is getting another makeover. The action-adventure icon will trash his loincloth and throw on a pair of khakis for the next big screen take on Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic character, who first appeared way back in the Stone Age -- er, 1912. Director Stephen Sommers (The Mummy) and screenwriter Stuart Beattie (Australia) are ditching the boy-raised-by-apes origin story for a 1930's-set romp with a hefty helping of romance: Think Pirates of the Caribbean with buffed-and-tanned actors flying through the jungle and sprinting up trees, parkour-style. In recent years, the lord of the jungle has been reincarnated as a Broadway headliner, an animated Disney hero, and even a prime-time TV star -- in 2003 the WB produced a modern-day take starring Calvin Klein model (and first-time actor) Travis Fimmel that flopped. This version seems like a safer bet, especially considering Beattie penned one of the earliest drafts of Pirates, which became a worldwide blockbuster.

http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2008/12/tarzan-born-aga.html

comedyfreak
12-04-2008, 06:37 AM
Didn't we see this with the Indiana Jones quadrilogy?

Jude The Obscure
12-05-2008, 12:47 AM
This isn't Tarzan.......I don't know what it would be--"Pirates of the African Jungle"?, but it isn't Tarzan.