The Legend of Tarzan (2016, D: Yates) S: Skarsgard, Robbie, Waltz, Jackson
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Re: Tarzan reboot @ Warner 2015 (D: Yates; S: Skarsgard, Robbie, Waltz, Jackson)
In the books, Tarzan was the ultimate male. He is a savage but hyper intelligent so he taught himself to read while at the same time he learned to speak to the apes (who named him Tarzan) and he's very strong and agile. He's basically Batman of the jungle. Or the Phantom sans the purple costume fetish.
A dark Tarzan. Gone are the soiled yellowish diapers. He now wears black leather underwear. Cheeta Tarzan's sidekick; wears a mask. Gone is the Tarzan yodel. Instead he uses a big flashlight he found from some hunters to signal he's around in the dark forest.
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Re: Tarzan reboot @ Warner 2015 (D: Yates; S: Skarsgard, Robbie, Waltz, Jackson)
Director: Jack Snyder
A dark Tarzan. Gone are the soiled yellowish diapers. He now wears black leather underwear. Cheeta Tarzan's sidekick; wears a mask. Gone is the Tarzan yodel. Instead he uses a big flashlight he found from some hunters to signal he's around in the dark forest.
A dark Tarzan. Gone are the soiled yellowish diapers. He now wears black leather underwear. Cheeta Tarzan's sidekick; wears a mask. Gone is the Tarzan yodel. Instead he uses a big flashlight he found from some hunters to signal he's around in the dark forest.
There was a tribe that killed his ape mother and Tarzan began hunting the tribe. They viewed Tarzan as a jungle spirit and would attempt to appease him. Stuff like that is what you'd see if there was ever a Tarzan movie (or series of movies) that were truer to the spirit of the book.
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes came close but then completely deviated when the white explorers show up. For one, Jane Porter was supposed to be with them (in the movie she meets Tarzan when he goes to England) and she was engaged to Tarzan's cousin.
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Re: Tarzan reboot @ Warner 2015 (D: Yates; S: Skarsgard, Robbie, Waltz, Jackson)
I can hear the trailer now: "In a world where apes can talk, Tarzan learned their language...He's Batman of the jungle!"
Image: Tarzan swings down from a tree and lands in front of the bad guys and says in a low, husky voice: "I'm Tarzan."
Image: Someone hands him a purple spandex costume with a mask and he tosses it aside, saying, "I don't think so," and strips down to his loincloth and the women in the audience squeal.
Image: Tarzan swings down from a tree and lands in front of the bad guys and says in a low, husky voice: "I'm Tarzan."
Image: Someone hands him a purple spandex costume with a mask and he tosses it aside, saying, "I don't think so," and strips down to his loincloth and the women in the audience squeal.
"In a world where man is the deadliest beast in the jungle, they just fucked with the wrong one"
"I ain't scared of no jungle man!"
"You should be"
"What's he gonna do? Throw bananas at us?" Image of Tarzan dropping boa constrictor on guy from tree.
"There is nowhere to run" Image of guy running/falling into pit Tarzan dug that contains lion.
"There is nowhere to hide" Image of guy hiding from Tarzan in cave. As he emerges from cave, Tarzan shoves knife through his skull from above entrance.
TARZAN
Hunting season opens summer 2015
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Re: Tarzan reboot (2015, D: Yates) S: Skarsgard, Robbie, Waltz, Jackson
"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have bananas. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career in the jungle. Skills that make me a nightmare for hairless apes like you. If you let my chimpanzee go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will throw feces at you."
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Just think how much better this movie would do if they let us run the marketing campaign.
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"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have bananas. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career in the jungle. Skills that make me a nightmare for hairless apes like you. If you let my chimpanzee go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will throw feces at you."
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Re: Tarzan reboot @ Warner 2015 (D: Yates; S: Skarsgard, Robbie, Waltz, Jackson)
MY problem with John Carter was the treatment of the character. They turned Carter into a reluctant hero and, if there is anything Carter isn't in the books, it's reluctant.
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I thought the problem with it was how jumbled it was. I read the first book, and I can only assume they out in more stuff from future installments, because I needed cliff notes and crib sheet to keep track of the factions, special powers, and everything else. And the ending seems torn between wanting a sequel and wanting to close things up. I to some extent understand that; the book was originally published as a serial, and the structure was such that it really wasn't very linear. But the movie wound up with the same problem in a different way, shooting off in way too many directions and becoming a jumbled mess.
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I had an easy time following it all despite only vague memories of the books. My issue was that the journey would have been better had the audience first witnessed Mars at the same time as John.
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Okay, they can go ahead and burn all the footage they've shot so far and start from scratch, because I just found the movie they should have been making all along:
This apparently came out in 1997, and yet I'm just now discovering it.
There's also a comic which apparently attempts to turn Tarzan into Turok:
Fuck the new movie, I've got some ridiculous comics to check out.
This apparently came out in 1997, and yet I'm just now discovering it.
There's also a comic which apparently attempts to turn Tarzan into Turok:
Fuck the new movie, I've got some ridiculous comics to check out.
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Agreed. I'd rather read those comics than see whatever silly movie they wind up with.
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Re: Tarzan reboot (2015, D: Yates) S: Skarsgard, Robbie, Waltz, Jackson
Good ol' Dark Horse during the 90's. They always knew how to milk a franchise and still keep it fun.
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Warner Bros. Faces 'Tarzan' Trouble as Director Is Double-Booked
by Kim Masters
10/14/2015 8:00am PDT
Still reeling from the epic flop 'Pan,' the studio faces issues with helmer David Yates also focusing on J.K. Rowling's 'Fantastic Beasts' even as the $180 million ape-man saga remains unfinished.
Still tallying its staggering loss on Pan, Warner Bros. is said to be facing an unusual challenge on its next mega-budgeted fantasy reboot: Tarzan. With the film still needing considerable work before its July 1 release date, director David Yates has started shooting his next Warners project, J.K. Rowling's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
Warners sources say the move from Tarzan to Beasts always was planned. "While it's somewhat unusual, we are extremely comfortable with the production timelines, which were set in advance, and have total confidence in the skill of David Yates — who is a four-time Harry Potter director — to deliver both of these pictures," says a Warners executive (Yates declined to comment).
But one source involved with the project is concerned that Tarzan, with a budget of around $180 million and packed with visual effects, isn't getting the attention it needs. "The schedule of the J.K. Rowling movie got in the way of an appropriate postproduction schedule on Tarzan," says this person. "Why would you ever crowd a director into starting a movie before his other movie is properly finished?"
Sources say early test screenings of Tarzan, an adventure starring Alexander Skarsgard of HBO's True Blood as the vine-swinger and Margot Robbie as Jane, did not go well. But studio sources say the film is not finished and it's routine for movies to be revised and improved. And a Warners insider notes that both Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood have gone into preproduction on projects before their previous film is finished, though none has been as expensive, complicated or challenged as Tarzan appears to be.
Yates began shooting Beasts, starring Eddie Redmayne and a large ensemble cast, in August, and a studio source says he is focused on that film during the week while reviewing edits of Tarzan on weekends. Sources say if that process proves too cumbersome to get the movie ready in time, Warners could push the film off its summer release date. Warners has Guy Ritchie's Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur on July 22 and the DC Comics team-up Suicide Squad on Aug. 5, so its schedule is crowded, and the studio has bumped a July release each of the past two summers, Jupiter Ascending and Pan.
The studio, long the gold standard in Hollywood, is in the midst of a protracted bad run; pricey flops this year include Jupiter, which was relocated to February, and The Man From U.N.C.L.E., which was released in August. Pan, which cost $150 to make and opened to just $15.3 million domestic, could lead to a loss of $130 million to $150 million, say analysts. In that context, especially, the Tarzan situation has raised eyebrows. Veteran producers and executives not involved with the project say they can't remember a studio pulling a director off one unfinished big-budget live-action movie to start another. But Beasts — at least as expensive as Tarzan and probably more so — has to make its own release date in November 2016.
Yates, 51, has been an extremely valuable asset to Warners as the director of four Harry Potter movies that collectively grossed more than $4 billion worldwide. Securing author Rowling's commitment for Beasts was a coup for Warners CEO Kevin Tsujihara in September 2013, just a few months after the executive — who lacked experience in film or television — took over the studio. A trilogy based on the textbook mentioned in the Harry Potter series is dated for 2016, 2018 and 2020.
"Notwithstanding that Tarzan isn't a cheap movie, the [Beasts] series is clearly one of Kevin's three planks in his platform," along with Lego and DC Comics, says a source close to the studio. "At Warner Bros. right now, anything pales in comparison to those three silos."
One insider notes that Tarzan also has suffered the loss of producer Jerry Weintraub, who died unexpectedly July 6: "If there was a strong independent producer on the movie, this could have been managed better." And a high-level executive at another studio expresses doubt about the viability of the Tarzan property and casting a relative unknown, Skarsgard, as the lead, saying, "You shouldn't make that movie without an actor you're dying to see in the part."
Wall Street analyst Harold Vogel says he wouldn't judge any film before its release but has concerns about the Warners slate in general. "The whole strategy over the last two years has been to emulate Disney and Marvel," he says. "It shows a possible exhaustion of ideas." He points to the studio's attempt to invigorate DC, which begins in earnest with Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice (March 25), as well as making such fantasy fare as Pan, Tarzan, King Arthur and a live-action Jungle Book set for 2017, more than a year after Disney's Jon Favreau-directed version of the Rudyard Kipling novel opens. Still, Vogel says he doesn't expect the studio's issues to affect Time Warner's stock price at this point.
Richard Greenfield of BTIG also says the critical question for Warners is the execution when it comes to DC. "They have laid out a multiyear strategy pinned to DC Comics spanning movies, TV, video games and [merchandise]," he says. "In turn, the success of Batman v. Superman and [the CBS series] Supergirl are of paramount importance."
Clearly, Warners insiders are hopeful that Batman v. Superman and Beasts will be major triumphs in the months ahead. "When things aren't working, everybody seems stupid," says a studio insider. "And when it works, they all seem like geniuses."
by Kim Masters
10/14/2015 8:00am PDT
Still reeling from the epic flop 'Pan,' the studio faces issues with helmer David Yates also focusing on J.K. Rowling's 'Fantastic Beasts' even as the $180 million ape-man saga remains unfinished.
Still tallying its staggering loss on Pan, Warner Bros. is said to be facing an unusual challenge on its next mega-budgeted fantasy reboot: Tarzan. With the film still needing considerable work before its July 1 release date, director David Yates has started shooting his next Warners project, J.K. Rowling's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
Warners sources say the move from Tarzan to Beasts always was planned. "While it's somewhat unusual, we are extremely comfortable with the production timelines, which were set in advance, and have total confidence in the skill of David Yates — who is a four-time Harry Potter director — to deliver both of these pictures," says a Warners executive (Yates declined to comment).
But one source involved with the project is concerned that Tarzan, with a budget of around $180 million and packed with visual effects, isn't getting the attention it needs. "The schedule of the J.K. Rowling movie got in the way of an appropriate postproduction schedule on Tarzan," says this person. "Why would you ever crowd a director into starting a movie before his other movie is properly finished?"
Sources say early test screenings of Tarzan, an adventure starring Alexander Skarsgard of HBO's True Blood as the vine-swinger and Margot Robbie as Jane, did not go well. But studio sources say the film is not finished and it's routine for movies to be revised and improved. And a Warners insider notes that both Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood have gone into preproduction on projects before their previous film is finished, though none has been as expensive, complicated or challenged as Tarzan appears to be.
Yates began shooting Beasts, starring Eddie Redmayne and a large ensemble cast, in August, and a studio source says he is focused on that film during the week while reviewing edits of Tarzan on weekends. Sources say if that process proves too cumbersome to get the movie ready in time, Warners could push the film off its summer release date. Warners has Guy Ritchie's Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur on July 22 and the DC Comics team-up Suicide Squad on Aug. 5, so its schedule is crowded, and the studio has bumped a July release each of the past two summers, Jupiter Ascending and Pan.
The studio, long the gold standard in Hollywood, is in the midst of a protracted bad run; pricey flops this year include Jupiter, which was relocated to February, and The Man From U.N.C.L.E., which was released in August. Pan, which cost $150 to make and opened to just $15.3 million domestic, could lead to a loss of $130 million to $150 million, say analysts. In that context, especially, the Tarzan situation has raised eyebrows. Veteran producers and executives not involved with the project say they can't remember a studio pulling a director off one unfinished big-budget live-action movie to start another. But Beasts — at least as expensive as Tarzan and probably more so — has to make its own release date in November 2016.
Yates, 51, has been an extremely valuable asset to Warners as the director of four Harry Potter movies that collectively grossed more than $4 billion worldwide. Securing author Rowling's commitment for Beasts was a coup for Warners CEO Kevin Tsujihara in September 2013, just a few months after the executive — who lacked experience in film or television — took over the studio. A trilogy based on the textbook mentioned in the Harry Potter series is dated for 2016, 2018 and 2020.
"Notwithstanding that Tarzan isn't a cheap movie, the [Beasts] series is clearly one of Kevin's three planks in his platform," along with Lego and DC Comics, says a source close to the studio. "At Warner Bros. right now, anything pales in comparison to those three silos."
One insider notes that Tarzan also has suffered the loss of producer Jerry Weintraub, who died unexpectedly July 6: "If there was a strong independent producer on the movie, this could have been managed better." And a high-level executive at another studio expresses doubt about the viability of the Tarzan property and casting a relative unknown, Skarsgard, as the lead, saying, "You shouldn't make that movie without an actor you're dying to see in the part."
Wall Street analyst Harold Vogel says he wouldn't judge any film before its release but has concerns about the Warners slate in general. "The whole strategy over the last two years has been to emulate Disney and Marvel," he says. "It shows a possible exhaustion of ideas." He points to the studio's attempt to invigorate DC, which begins in earnest with Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice (March 25), as well as making such fantasy fare as Pan, Tarzan, King Arthur and a live-action Jungle Book set for 2017, more than a year after Disney's Jon Favreau-directed version of the Rudyard Kipling novel opens. Still, Vogel says he doesn't expect the studio's issues to affect Time Warner's stock price at this point.
Richard Greenfield of BTIG also says the critical question for Warners is the execution when it comes to DC. "They have laid out a multiyear strategy pinned to DC Comics spanning movies, TV, video games and [merchandise]," he says. "In turn, the success of Batman v. Superman and [the CBS series] Supergirl are of paramount importance."
Clearly, Warners insiders are hopeful that Batman v. Superman and Beasts will be major triumphs in the months ahead. "When things aren't working, everybody seems stupid," says a studio insider. "And when it works, they all seem like geniuses."
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Can't wait until this one flops too. Do we really need a $180mil Tarzan movie?
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Re: Tarzan reboot (2016, D: Yates) S: Skarsgard, Robbie, Waltz, Jackson
It was MGM that succeeded with Tarzan, not WB. Warner should go back to its roots and reboot the franchise that first put the studio on the map 90 years ago:
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Re: Tarzan reboot (2016, D: Yates) S: Skarsgard, Robbie, Waltz, Jackson
I'd watch a $180 million Rin Tin Tin movie over Tarzan any day.