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Supernatural remains one of the most feel-good shows in the genre. Despite running for fifteen seasons, it somehow managed to retain its loyal fanbase through the highs and lows. Everyone felt the bond in Team Free Will as they navigated through Werewolves, Shapeshifters, Angels, and even God himself. However, none of this would have been possible if Eric Kripke hadn’t taken a plunge with a failed show, Tarzan.

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Developed by Eric Kripke, Tarzan told a modernized story of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan but it didn’t really work out for anyone. The show was canceled just after eight episodes and instead of feeling disheartened, Eric Kripke was glad the ship sank before it sailed deeper into the waters. Luckily, Supernatural ended up being the lifeboat the man needed.

Eric Kripke and the show that was a hot mess Eric Kripke’s...

The Legend of Tarzan may have been inspired by real-life individuals like William Charles Midlin who lived in isolation after a shipwreck. Using artistic liberties, the film highlights historical events such as Congo's enslavement, influenced by characters like George Washington Williams. Despite fictional elements like Tarzan's romantic interests, the movie succeeds in portraying how individuals can shape history by doing the right thing.

The legend of Tarzan has been told in various ways throughout the years, ranging from animated classics to a modern live-action film that sought to tackle Tarzan's afterlife as John Clayton. While the 2016 film, The Legend of Tarzan, starring Alexander Skarsgard, Margot Robbie, and Samuel L. Jackson, was incredible in terms of production values, the majority of fans were concerned about the story it presented.

The portrayal of Tarzan was fairly realistic, considering that his origin story is much more sophisticated in the film, although fans...

George Washington Williams, portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson in The Legend of Tarzan, was a real-life hero who exposed the human rights abuses in the Congo Free State in the late 1800s. Williams had an extensive career as a soldier, journalist, Baptist minister, and politician before uncovering the truth about Belgium's crimes in the Congo Free State. While the movie takes creative liberties with the story, it does highlight Williams' influential role in history through his open letter exposing the atrocities in the Congo Free State.

Although The Legend of Tarzan's central storyline is obviously fantastical, there are some interesting real-life elements to the movie – especially concerning Samuel L. Jackson's character, George Washington Williams. In the film, George is an earnest investigator, sent to unearth Belgian crimes in the Congo Free State alongside Alexander Skarsgård's Tarzan. However, the real Washington Williams played a pivotal role, not just in...

Grammy® Award-Winning Producer, Guitarist & Singer John Pizzarelli joins Jimmy’s Jazz & Blues Club’s 2022 Schedule of Shows which now includes 9 Nea Jazz Masters, 52 Grammy® Award-Winning Artists, 46 Blues Music Award-Winners, and a comprehensive list of talented musicians with 575+ Grammy® Award Nominations amongst them. Tickets for John Pizzarelli at Jimmy’s Jazz & Blues Club, as well as the current list of 2022 & 2023 shows, can be found on Ticketmaster.com and Jimmy’s Online Event Calendar at: http://www.jimmysoncongress.com/events.

Jimmy’s Jazz & Blues Club Features Grammy® Award-Winning Producer, Guitarist & Singer John Pizzarelli on Thursday December 15 at 8 P.M. World-Renowned Jazz Guitarist John Pizzarelli has been hailed by the Boston Globe for “reinvigorating the Great American Songbook and re-popularizing jazz.”

While plenty of jazz greats influenced his work—Benny Goodman, Les Paul, Zoot Sims, Clark Terry and Slam Stewart, among others—Nat King Cole has been Pizzarelli’s hero and foundation over the last 25+ years.

Espn’s NFL coverage is going to look a lot different next season. After taking veteran Chris Berman off the pro football beat, the Worldwide Leader today laid off John Clayton, who had been covering the gridiron for the network since the first Clinton administration: I guess you saw the news. After 23 years I won't be contributing to Espn. Two words. Thank you. My bosses and co-workers are the best. — John Clayton (@ClaytonESPN) May 31, 2017 The bespectacled…...

Hey mom, he’s done with his segment — for good. Frown emoji. Espn senior writer John Clayton has confirmed on Twitter that he was among the company’s recent mass-layoffs, which impacted about 100 on-air personalities and reporters. The NFL expert had previously been silent on the social media website since April 25, 2017. Clayton, who was with Espn for 23 years, thanked his bosses and co-workers on the platform. Also Read: Espn's Top Reporters Talk Layoffs: 'It's Been a Real Tough Time' “I am well taken care of by Espn,” he wrote. “I have daily show on 710 Espn Seattle 10 to 12...

Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Margot Robbie, Samuel L. Jackson, Christoph Waltz, Sidney Ralitsoele, Osy Ikhile, Mens-Sana Tamakloe, Antony Acheampong, Edward Apeagyei, Ashley Byam, Casper Crump | Written by Adam Cozad, Craig Brewer | Directed by David Yates

There have been so many Tarzan movies made that it feels like it would be hard to get the story wrong. The Legend of Tarzan is a movie looking to be a blockbuster, and has the star power to do it. Why is it then that it never reaches the potential it tries so hard for?

When John Clayton (Alexander Skarsgård) aka Tarzan is invited to return to Africa by the Belgian King Leopold, Jane (Margot Robbie) refuses to remain in England, making it clear she too wants to return to the place she calls home. Accompanied by American George Washington Williams (Samuel L. Jackson) who wants to investigate rumours of slavery and other atrocities, they...

Lord Greystoke is back in Africa righting wrongs, freeing the enslaved, smiting the Belgians and rescuing his blonde damsel in distress. We've got more 3-D scenery, irate gorillas and special effects than we can shake a stick at... but do we really have Tarzan? The Legend of Tarzan 3-D Blu-ray Warner Home Video 2016 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 110 min. / Video title extension: A New Threat Awaits / Street Date October 11, 2016 / 24.99 Starring Alexander Skarsgård, Christoph Waltz, Samuel L. Jackson, Margot Robbie, Djimon Hounsou, Jim Broadbent, Ben Chaplin, . >Cinematography Henry Braham Film Editor Mark Day Original Music Rupert Gregson-Williams Written by Adam Cozad, Craig Brewer based on stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs Produced by David Barron, Tony Ludwig, Alan Riche, Jerry Weintraub Directed by David Yates

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Hollywood's love affair with comic book heroes and classic pulp adventure heroes is more than a little spotty. Yes, the Marvel Universe still has the...

Nathaniel R's been revisiting (and ogling) past Lord of the Apes this summer. We've now reached the late 90s...

In our Swing Tarzan Swing series we've now reached the late 1990s. A time in which I, Greystoke-loving Nathaniel who is known to swing enthusiastically on the ropey vines of time between decades, am stunned into something approaching silence. I've sat on this one for over a week, struggling for something to say. 

What possessed anyone involved to dive headfirst into a schlocky old school Tarzan plot/adventure while also incongruously connecting itself to the (comparatively) high-brow Greystoke? Early Tarzan films avoided England but for onscreen talking points or origin story allusions. After Greystoke Tarzan films must begin there, goes the apparently unspoken rule. So we first meet John Clayton (Casper Van Dien) as a rich heir happily immersed in all things Jane (Jane March) in England. As with the new 2016 Tarzan,...

Burbank, CA, August 18, 2016 – The King of the Jungle returns when The Legend of Tarzan arrives onto Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray 3D Combo Pack, Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and Digital HD. From Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures comes the action adventure The Legend of Tarzan, starring Alexander Skarsgård (Diary of a Teenage Girl, HBO’s True Blood) as the legendary character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

The ensemble cast also stars Oscar® nominee Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction, the Marvel Cinematic Universe films), Margot Robbie (Suicide Squad, The Wolf of Wall Street), Oscar nominee Djimon Hounsou (Blood Diamond, Gladiator), with Oscar winner Jim Broadbent (Iris), and two-time Oscar winner Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained).

David Yates (the final four Harry Potter films, upcoming Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) directed The Legend of Tarzan from a screenplay by Adam Cozad and Craig Brewer, which...

Filtering other people’s stories through the eyes of white men is tedious and offensive, and it feels like a desperate hedge against fresh perspectives. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

It’s a problem lately with lots of Hollywood movies… and some not-Hollywood movies, too. The same sorts of stories — often literally the same stories, as with reboots and remakes — are getting told over and over again, and with little apparent notion that what is required is a good reason to tell those same stories again. And here we go again.

To say that tales of Tarzan have been told before is an almost absurd understatement: he has been a mainstay of cinema since the silent era. And while The Legend of Tarzan is only very loosely based on the books by Edgar Rice Burroughs,...

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For many years Tarzan was a staple of cinema—in fact from its very onset. The first Tarzan feature, Tarzan of the Apes, came out in 1918 and was followed by close to 50 other adaptations in the last century. His star started to fade in the late 1960s and there were no Tarzan features in the 1970s save for one. The 1980s somewhat provided his last gasp on the big screen with movies like the Bo Derek vehicle Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981) and- more impressively- the well-received Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes. The 1990s saw only 1998’s Tarzan and the Lost City and the 1999 Disney animated version. In fact, for all many “youngsters” know Tarzan may as well have originated with the Disney cartoon. For the first time in many years, we finally have a new big-budget live-action iteration of one of the screen...

Rob Leane Published Date Wednesday, July 6, 2016 - 08:56

It seems quite fitting in the age of brooding big screen vigilantes that we’d get a Tarzan movie where Tarzan doesn’t really want to be Tarzan. Fitting, but not always thrilling.

Adam Cozad and Craig Brewer’s The Legend Of Tarzan screenplay takes something of a Deadpool approach, starting later in the story (with Alexander Skarsgård’s Tarzan now living a comfortable life in England as John Clayton, before being drawn back to the Congo after rumours of slavery arrive in his ears) but periodically flashing back to his origin tale.

But while this worked for Deadpool (thanks to the anarchic voiceover holding everything together), here it falls pretty flat, with the modern day characters stopping every now and then to stare into the middle distance and relive a very specific memory in their minds. And of course these vivid...

The 4th of July holiday weekend is typically a big one at the box office, with fans flocking to their local theaters to beat the heat. This year, three new movies opened, The Bfg, The Legend of Tarzan and The Purge: Election Year, going up against the winner for the past two weekends, Finding Dory. Unfortunately, none of these newcomers could defeat the champ, with Finding Dory winning for a third week in a row with $41.9 million.

Box Office Mojo reports that Finding Dory dropped just 42.6% this weekend. The Legend of Tarzan opened in 3,561 theaters, followed by The Bfg in 3,357 theaters and The Purge: Election Year in 2,796 theaters. The Bfg is the only new release to have a positive Rotten Tomatoes rating, with a solid 71% Fresh, with The Legend of Tarzan scoring just 35% and The Purge: Election Year getting 54%. The Legend of Tarzan debuted in second place with $38.1 million, followed...

When I’m planning to review a film, I try not to read any criticism of that film until after I’ve already organized my thoughts and written and published my own piece. I don’t like having anyone else’s take in my head as I’m writing, positive or negative. I don’t want to be put into a position where I’m either defending or attacking someone else’s opinion. I want my reviews to be my active thoughts, not a reactive response to something. In the case of The Legend Of Tarzan, though, they evidently gave the east coast a one-day head-start on the rest of us. Even though I was in the middle of my move into a new apartment on Wednesday, the day I was set to see the film, I saw enough headlines go by on social media to be able to tell...

David Yates’ The Legend of Tarzan does an effective job bringing the iconic King of the Jungle back to the big screen in a way that stays true to the classic books. With beautiful cinematography and a surprisingly strong lead performance by Alexander Skarsgard, The Legend of Tarzan delivers an entertaining adaptation of literature’s first super hero. However, will this film resonate with modern audiences who are unfamiliar with the character?

The character of Tarzan was created by Edgar Rice Burroughs over 100 years ago (having debuted in All Stories Weekly magazine in 1912) and has been adapted over 100 times internationally, on film and TV. The majority of these projects have ranged from mediocre-to-poor, with only a few actual gems in the bunch. Only a small handful of them touched upon the spirit of the Burroughs books. It’s been a long while since there has been a live-action version of...

They don’t make movies like this anymore. Much has already been said about the death of Hollywood star power, the emergence of brands as movie stars, and their contribution to the general “meh” of blockbusters at large, but with The Legend of Tarzan, director David Yates and Warner Bros. seem to be content in tossing yet another damp rag into that conversation. It’s a film both classically old and boorishly modern. In the true spirit of the 2016 blockbuster, it struggles to find the right amount of charisma to propel towards something worth talking about.

Things kick off well enough, abandoning a relatively tired origin story structure in favor of expedience. We meet our titular vine-swinger (Alexander Skarsgård) not in the Congo, but dressed to the nines as John Clayton III in his family home. After establishing motives that are muddled at best, Clayton begrudgingly sets out to Africa...

The Legend Of Tarzan brings back an old Hollywood hero for a summertime, popcorn-munching adventure in 19th century colonial Africa. The movie, which stars Alexander Skarsgard and a sterling supporting cast that includes Samuel L. Jackson, Christoph Waltz, Margot Robbie and Djimon Hounsou, provides a certain amount of fun and serviceable entertainment. It is likely to please Tarzan fans more than the 1984 Greystoke, as this movie has a less serious tone but a story closer to the original books than some movie Tarzans. Still, the fine cast is not quite enough to rescue the film entirely from its shortcomings, some inherent in the Tarzan story.

The character Tarzan debuted in Edgar Rice Burrough’s 1912 novel “Tarzan of the Apes,” and made to leap to films in the silent era, in a 1918 film of the same name. But many film fans know the character best from the early sound era Johnny Weissmuller movies.

If you do a search for Tarzan on IMDb, you'll find exactly 200 titles. This search seemingly includes a number of obscure projects that have nothing to do with the King of the Jungle, such as Barzan and an Indian film dubbed Taarzan: The Wonder Car, which seems like a Knight Rider rip-off. Still, that number is particularly staggering, considering that the character himself is just over 100 years old, with Edgar Rice Burroughs' famous creation first appearing in a magazine back in 1912. And yet, even with all of this lore and history, the powers that be still feel another Tarzan reboot is needed with this weekend's The Legend of Tarzan. They are sorely mistaken.

I don't consider myself a Tarzan aficionado or scholar whatsoever. I remember watching the 1984 film Greystoke when I was a wee lad in the 1980s, but the character itself was never one I was thoroughly obsessed with.

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It’s easy to understand why Warner Bros. was tempted to make The Legend of Tarzan. Franchise-friendly, FX-heavy, and blockbuster-ready, it also boasts one of those illustrious brand names that everyone knows and Hollywood has yet to capitalize upon. To the studio, especially back when the project was first green-lit, in the wake of Alice in Wonderland and with the juggernaut Harry Potter franchise winding down, Tarzan must have seemed like a no-brainer, at once familiar enough to draw audiences and broad enough to allow a new team of filmmakers to provide a contemporary take on an old mythos.

And yet, times have changed. In this decade of #OscarsSoWhite and Black Lives Matter, audiences are challenging the movie industry to do better when it comes to smartly discussing race and – more prominently in the case of Tarzan – thoroughly banishing the white-savior...

Ben Mortimer Jul 5, 2016

The new big screen Tarzan on The Legend Of Tarzan, how living in Leeds turned his life around, and being Alexander Skarsgard...

Once he'd finished his military service in Sweden, Alexander Skarsgard - the new big screen Tarzan - decided to move to the north east of England. Specifically: Leeds. On the eve of The Legend Of Tarzan being released in the UK, we picked things up from there...

How was Leeds, did you like it?

I loved it.

Can you do a Leeds accent?

No, it’s not very good. We ended up there, a buddy and I. We wanted to go to England after high school, we just wanted to go to England to have some fun.

Leeds is a fun place.

The thing is, most of our friends were in London, a lot of people from Sweden in their twenties go to London and...

Committed performances aren’t enough to save this film from uncomfortable colonial optics, uninspiring CGI and tedious plotlines

Yes, he does the yell. It comes late in the third act, emerging from off screen, thrown like a desperate, aural Hail Mary, a last ditch reminder that maybe this story about a man with ape-like superhero powers should be a tiny bit fun. But it’s too little, too late. The Legend of Tarzan ends up being a garbled, clunky production that tries to please everyone and ends up pleasing no one.

Director David Yates, who inherited the beloved Harry Potter characters and brought that series home in its final four entries, makes the wise decision to assume everyone knows who John Clayton, Lord of Greystoke, is. The specifics of how he became Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, slips into the narrative in some well placed flashbacks, but this is not an origin story.

“No one ever started with less.” The only interesting detail about the phenomenally uninteresting hero of “The Legend of Tarzan” is a stray observation that “No one ever started with less.” On the contrary: The film completely glosses over its namesake’s evolution from poop-flinging jungle hunk to tea-stirring British Lord. Separately, that throwaway line is vaguely applicable to the film itself. Whereas upcoming tentpoles like “Suicide Squad” and “Jason Bourne” will enjoy the momentum afforded to them by their respective franchises, “The Legend of Tarzan” — despite centering on an Edgar Rice Burroughs character who’s almost as old as movies themselves — could hardly have less going for it. Most $180 million movies have running starts, but this one is a 747 trying to take off with only 50 feet of runway.

Tarzan is no stranger to the silver screen (the character was created during the rise of early cinema, and his...

Pixar's Finding Dory helped resuscitate a sagging summer box office earlier this month, with a record-breaking $135 million, the highest debut ever for an animated movie. The sequel easily took down Independence Day: Resurgence, The Shallows and Free State of Jones in its second weekend, but it faces some much stiffer competition heading into the extended holiday. Disney's The Bfg, Warner Bros.' The Legend of Tarzan and Universal's The Purge: Election Year all debut this Friday. While it will likely be fairly close, Finding Dory is expected to hold onto its crown for a third weekend in a row, with $38.7 million.

If this prediction holds true, it will represent a 53.5% drop for Finding Dory in its third weekend, and push it past $300 million domestic. While $38.7 million isn't a terribly high figure for a winning summer weekend, none of the three new releases have been tracking very high with box office pundits.

Considering David Yates' impressive track record with the Harry Potter film franchise, there's plenty of reason to be optimistic for his big summer release The Legend of Tarzan, which hits theaters this Friday. Could it be the big sleeper hit of the summer? In one week's time, we'll know. The film stars Alexander Skarsgård (True Blood) as the titular hero, Margot Robbie (Suicide Squad) as his lady love Jane, Samuel L. Jackson (Avengers: Age Of Ultron), Christoph Waltz (Spectre), Djimon Hounsou (Guardians of the Galaxy), John Hurt (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 & 2), Jim Broadbent (Harry Potter 6 & 8), and Casper Crump (Legends of Tomorrow). Check out the six clips below: Plus, here's over six minutes of B-roll footage:   It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan (Skarsgård) left the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life as John Clayton III, Lord Greystoke, with his beloved wife,...

Take a look @ new images of actress Margot Robbie as 'Jane Porter' in director David Yates' "The Legend Of Tarzan", co-starring Alexander Skarsgård as 'John Clayton III', 'Lord Greystoke', aka 'Tarzan' King Of The Apes:

"...it has been years since the man once known as 'Tarzan' (Skarsgård) left the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life ...

"...as 'John Clayton III', 'Lord Greystoke', with his wife 'Jane' (Robbie) at his side.

"Now, he has been invited back to the Congo...

"...to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament...

"...unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge...

"...masterminded by the Belgian, 'Captain 'Leon Rom' (Christoph Waltz).

"But those behind the murderous plot have no idea what they are about to unleash..."

Cast also includes Samuel L. Jackson as 'George Washington Williams', Djimon Hounsou as 'Chief Mbonga'...

...John Hurt as 'Prof.

With The Legend of Tarzan set to swing into theaters July 1, Warner Bros. is making one final push to get you into theaters. An extremely buff Alexander Skarsgård stars as iconic hero, who’s since left his jungle roots behind to settle down as John Clayton III, Lord Greystroke, in 19th century England. He’s happily married to Jane (Margot Robbie), and […]

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Warner Bros has released a new final trailer for the action adventure thriller The Legend Of Tarzan, which you can check out below.

The film is directed by David Yates and stars Alexander Skarsgård, Margot Robbie, Samuel L. Jackson, Christoph Waltz, and Djimon Hounsou.

It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan (Skarsgård) left the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life as John Clayton III, Lord Greystoke, with his beloved wife, Jane (Robbie) at his side. Now, he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the Belgian, Captain Leon Rom (Waltz). But those behind the murderous plot have no idea what they are about to unleash.

The Legend Of Tarzan will swing into theaters on July 1, 2016.

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Director David Yates' take on The Legend of Tarzan will put a new spin on the classic Greystoke tale, beginning the story with a settled John Clayton being forced to return to his wild ways to come to the aid of his wife, Jane. This latest (and supposedly final) trailer for the movie features plenty of action-packed new footage. On July 1, the legend returns. Watch the action-packed new video for The #LegendOfTarzan. https://t.co/DHvQF1i9k7https://t.co/bZ5bxs8AdB — #LegendOfTarzan (@legendoftarzan) June 19, 2016 It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan (Skarsgård) left the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life as John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, with his beloved wife, Jane (Robbie) at his side. Now, he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge,...

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“The Legend of Tarzan,” which opens on July 1, 2016 and is rated “PG-13,” also stars Margot Robbie, Samuel L. Jackson, Christoph Waltz, Djimon Hounsou, Jim Broadbent, Ella Purnell and Casper Crump from director David Yates and writers Adam Cozad and Craig Brewer.

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When it comes to summer movies, most of the attention seems to be focused on blockbusters like Suicide Squad, Ghostbusters, Star Trek Beyond and Jason Bourne. So, you’d be forgiven for forgetting that the King of the Jungle is also going to be making an appearance in theatres shortly.

Yes, that’s right, Warner Bros.’ The Legend of Tarzan is still on track to arrive next month and today, the studio has released a massive batch of stills to remind us of that fact. On full display are star Alexander Skarsgård’s flawless abs along with numerous shots of the gorgeous Margot Robbie and co-stars Samuel L. Jackson and Christoph Waltz, among others.

Director David Yates is behind the camera for this one, bringing us Tarzan’s origin story as we see him return to his rightful home of Congo...

With a little less than two weeks to go, Warner Bros. has gone ahead and released over sixty beautiful hi-resolution stills from David Yates' upcoming The Legend of Tarzan. The film stars Alexander Skarsgård (True Blood) as the titular hero with Margot Robbie (Suicide Squad) as his lady love Jane Porter. The supporting cast consists of Samuel L. Jackson (Avengers: Age Of Ultron) as Tarzan's ally George Washington Williams, Christoph Waltz (Spectre) as the film's villain Captain Léon Rom, Djimon Hounsou (Furious 7) as Chief Mbonga, and John Hurt (Hercules) as Jane's father Prof. Archimedes Q. Porter. With that cast and the director of the last four Harry Potter films, could this be the surprise hit of the summer? Check out the stunning photos below and don't miss the film in theaters July 1! It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan (Skarsgård) left the jungles...

London – We are here at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden, where the Harry Potter films were shot, among other works. Working at the studio today are a number of people who participated in that legendary franchise. There is the production designer for all eight films, Stuart Craig; producer of six of them, David Barron; and the director of four (five if you include the upcoming Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, which Craig has also worked on), David Yates. On this September 2014 day, however, Yates and company aren't telling some improbable tale of a boy wizard, no, they're telling the improbable tale of a boy who was raised by animals in the jungle and, as a man, finds himself back in that very same jungle to save the woman he loves. They are at work on The Legend of Tarzan featuring Alexander Skarsgard as the legendary vine-swinger. Also appearing in the movie are Margot Robbie as Jane; Christoph Waltz as the villainous Captain Rom; Djimon Hounsou as Chief Mbonga; and Samuel L. Jackson as George Washington Williams, who is working with our hero. This film has been a long time coming. Certainly not the first on board, Skarsgard started to talk to Yates about this project about two years before I met him on set in 2014. 18 months ago he started training, as the film was originally scheduled to shoot in the summer of 2013. "It was really devastating," Skarsgard explains about the delay and the potential the movie wasn't going to ever get made. That sadness though turned back to something more positive when, after going off the grid to ski at the South Pole, Skarsgard finally made it to a place where "they actually had internet there, like really slow dial-up" and received an email from Yates saying that things were looking good for Tarzan. While that may be Skarsgard's origin story for this role, the movie itself is not an origin tale. In fact, it isn't even based on an Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan tale. David Barron informs us, "None of it comes from Burroughs." It is, Barron says, "based on the character" Burroughs created but an original tale. Legend of Tarzan features its hero (John Clayton III, as he is known in England) returning to Africa as a trade emissary, Jane getting kidnapped by Rom, and Tarzan having to save her. Skarsgard promises us flashbacks to the character as a boy, but the bulk of the story is about his adult life and return to Africa, "The emotional journey isn't, you know, the man from the jungle trying to readjustment or adapt to life… in Victorian London. It's quite the opposite. When you first meet him, he's in England… he's Lord Greystoke and he's very civilized and a British lord and then he goes back to his home—his emotional home—the Congo, and it's that kind of dichotomy between man and beast. He's not really happy in England. He's got an amazing wife; a fantastic manor… a really good life on the surface, but he's not happy. He's not really himself there." As the movie progresses, Skarsgard says, there is, "more Tarzan and less John Clayton III." Sadly for those of us on set this day, they are filming a scene relatively early on in Tarzan's return to Africa. There is a train car set up on a stage and Tarzan is having a moderate disagreement with some Belgian soldiers, a disagreement mainly expressed through some violent physical acts. We can't get a good look at what's happening inside the train car—although we do see a soldier wearing a harness get lifted out of the car after being manhandled by Tarzan—but we get to see the movie magic of the car rocking back and forth along with the lights moving so as to simulate the motion of the train. What is impressive is not the fisticuffs on this stage, but the jungle that exists on another. Well, the jungle that exists on two other stages. Rearranging the trees and paths that run through these two stages, seven total looks have been made available to Yates when filming in the trees. Speaking of this jungle, Craig tells us that what we see on the set isn't quite the way it would be in the rain forest – the trees, for example, are grouped too close together. He describes them as "a piece of architectural sculpture." Try to tell the actual mushrooms growing on the set that things aren't real though. Yes, the jungle is in England. No principal photography for the movie is taking place in Africa—six weeks of shooting will take place in Gabon, mainly the aerial unit for visual effects background plates, says Barron—due to the difficulties of shooting there and the cost. Barron explains that it's "not a nice place to work. Fun place to go to, but not a nice place to spend several months shooting." He says that with the help of visual effects, "no one will ever know this is not Africa." One of the things that will add to this verisimilitude is the number of extras who portray the tribes. The film's makeup and hair designer, Fae Hammond, describes getting 160 people ready as "like a factory" with each individual going around to various sections (hair, scars, etc.). It takes as long, Hammond says, as three hours for a team of about 40 to 50 to get the makeup done for the tribes people. Many questions posed to the cast and crew this day are about other Tarzan films as the character does have such a long big screen legacy. How big? Well, this is not Craig's first experience with the character. He was also the production designer on 1984's Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes. While the two films may not be directed related, that film, he says, is "in a way, the kind of prequel to this." As Craig explains things, the former movie takes Tarzan from his birth out of the jungle and this one is "his return to Africa" and consequently "they kind of follow on, in narrative terms." He also notes though that they didn't have the use of computers for that movie. Having people in ape suits performing stunts limited production design in a way that this film does not have to worry about. As he puts it, "it compromised the set, the jungle set." While Craig's previous experience with Tarzan might lead into this movie, he also acknowledges that the way the worlds that are being portrayed are not the same. "I think there was an attempt to be deliberately different," he says after noting the use of a different look for the paddle steamer, tree house jungle home, and ancestral home for Tarzan's family (this time it's Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire, last time it was Floors Castle). Discussing an entirely different sort of "look" for the film, namely nature of the action, is stunt coordinator Buster Reeves who can delve into everything from vine-swinging, to the tight confines of the train fight being shot today, to the "CGI padded suit" worn by some members of his team. With this last one, Reeves describes how they took the measurements of gorillas for this suit so that it could be appropriately padded. They also, "designed a set of arms to make them elongated… [since] monkeys arms are longer than the legs and we're vice-versa." He adds, "it's a real interesting process that when you put that stuff on, how much you feel your body physically change" and just how different it is from way most people would act while doing a monkey impression. How, exactly, audiences respond to the world that Yates and his team have put together remains to be seen. Barron promises that this is "just a great, big, fun action-adventure romp." That is, of course, precisely what has made Tarzan so popular in both literature and on the screen. Perhaps, if they have gotten everything just right and those who go to the theaters love it, Skarsgard will supplant Johnny Weissmuller (whom Skarsgard himself lists as his favorite) as the classic depiction of the character. The Legend of Tarzan is swinging into theaters in just a few short weeks.

From Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures comes the action adventure The Legend Of Tarzan, starring Alexander Skarsgård (HBO’s “True Blood”) as the legendary character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

The film also stars Oscar nominee Samuel L. Jackson (“Pulp Fiction,” the “Captain America” films), Margot Robbie (“The Wolf of Wall Street”), Oscar nominee Djimon Hounsou (“Blood Diamond,” “Gladiator”), Oscar nominee John Hurt (“The Elephant Man,” the “Harry Potter” films), with Oscar winner Jim Broadbent (“Iris”), and two-time Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz (“Inglourious Basterds,” “Django Unchained”).

It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan (Skarsgård) left the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life as John Clayton III, Lord Greystoke, with his beloved wife, Jane (Robbie) at his side. Now, he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the Belgian, Captain Leon Rom (Waltz). But those behind the murderous plot have no idea what they are about to unleash.

David Yates (the final four “Harry Potter” films, upcoming “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”) directed “The Legend of Tarzan” from a screenplay by Adam Cozad and Craig Brewer, story by Brewer and Cozad based on the Tarzan stories created by Burroughs.

A Jerry Weintraub production, The Legend Of Tarzan will be released on July 1, 2016. The film will be distributed in 2D and 3D in select theatres and IMAX by Warner Bros. Pictures,

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Adding to the already-increasing pre-release buzz, Warner Bros has just unveiled an IMAX trailer for the forthcoming “The Legend of Tarzan.”

Directed by David Yates, the action/adventure flick stars Alexander Skarsgard, Margot Robbie, Samuel L. Jackson, Christoph Waltz and Djimon Hounsou and is slated to hit theaters on July 1st.

Per the synopsis, “The film begins years after the man once known as Tarzan left the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life as John Clayton III, Lord Greystoke, with his beloved wife, Jane at his side. Now, he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the Belgian, Captain Leon Rom. But those behind the murderous plot have no idea what they are about to unleash.”

Alexander Skarsgård transforms into the King of the Jungle...

It's been a few months since we've seen any footage from Warner Bros.' upcoming The Legend of Tarzan, after the second trailer dropped back in March. With this highly-anticipated movie's release less than a month away, the studio has released a new IMAX trailer, chocked full of new footage. This trailer showcases how a young boy raised in the wild transforms into Tarzan, the king of the jungle.

Alexander Skarsgard stars in Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures' action adventure The Legend of Tarzan as the legendary character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The film also stars Margot Robbie as Jane, Djimon Hounsou as Chief Mbong, Samuel L. Jackson as the true-life adventurer George Washington Williams and Casper Crump as Captain Kerchover, along with John Hurt and Simon Russell Beale. This new take on the classic will hit theaters July 1, going up against Disney's The Bfg, Universal's...

Warner Bros. Pictures has released the IMAX trailer for The Legend Of Tarzan, which you can check out below.

The film is directed by David Yates and stars Alexander Skarsgård, Margot Robbie, Samuel L. Jackson, Christoph Waltz, and Djimon Hounsou.

It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan (Skarsgård) left the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life as John Clayton III, Lord Greystoke, with his beloved wife, Jane (Robbie) at his side. Now, he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the Belgian, Captain Leon Rom (Waltz). But those behind the murderous plot have no idea what they are about to unleash.

The Legend Of Tarzan will swing into theaters on July 1, 2016.

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Long before Suicide Squad roars onto the scene in early August, much of Warner Bros.’ attention will be drawn to The Legend of Tarzan, the studio’s lavish reboot that introduces Alexander Skarsgård as the titular King of the Apes.

And sure enough, nipping at the heels of two moody posters for David Yates’ blockbuster, Warner has premiered the Legend of Tarzan IMAX trailer, serving up three minutes of primordial action that not only tees up Skarsgård’s origins story – returning to his rightful home of Congo after failing to adopt to a gentrified life as John Clayton – but also sheds more light on the key supporting players, including Margot Robbie’s Jane Porter and Christoph Waltz’s decietful Belgian, Captain Leon Rom.

For all of the talent involved in The Legend of Tarzan, it’ll be fascinating to see how Warner’s tentpole fares at the box office in...

Ever since the first photo of Alexander Skarsgård and his washboard abs hit the web, there was no doubting that the Swede looked the part as Warner Bros.’ all-new King of the Apes. And now, with exactly one month until the film’s theatrical bow in North America, the IMAX poster for The Legend of Tarzan drives that point home and then some.

Stylized in a similar vein to last week’s moody one-sheet, which featured both Skarsgård’s musclebound hero and Margot Robbie’s Jane Porter deep within the Congo jungle, the poster below finds Skarsgård standing shoulder to shoulder with his primitive ancestors.

Upon returning to his rightful home, Tarzan and his glowering allies will be uniting against Christoph Waltz’s scheming Belgian, Captain Leon Rom, who wants nothing more than to exploit the Congo forest for corporate interests. Also on board for that adventure are Djimon Hounsou...

Warner Bros. Pictures has released the IMAX poster for The Legend Of Tarzan, which you can check out below.

The film is directed by David Yates and stars Alexander Skarsgård, Margot Robbie, Samuel L. Jackson, Christoph Waltz, and Djimon Hounsou.

It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan (Skarsgård) left the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life as John Clayton III, Lord Greystoke, with his beloved wife, Jane (Robbie) at his side. Now, he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the Belgian, Captain Leon Rom (Waltz). But those behind the murderous plot have no idea what they are about to unleash.

The Legend Of Tarzan will swing into theaters on July 1, 2016.

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Continuing to build the pre-release hype, Warner Bros just rolled out the latest poster for the forthcoming jungle flick “The Legend of Tarzan.”

Starring Alexander Skarsgard, Margot Robbie, Christoph Waltz, Samuel L Jackson and Djimon Hounsou, the much-anticipated project is scheduled to land in theaters on July 1st.

Per the synopsis, “The story picks up years after the man once known as Tarzan leaves the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life as John Clayton III, with his beloved wife, Jane at his side. Now, he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the Belgian, Captain Leon Rom. But those behind the murderous plot have no idea what they are about to unleash.”...

If Jon Favreau spun out a lavish, CG-laden blockbuster based on Rudyard Kipling’s collective work earlier this year with The Jungle Book, Harry Potter director David Yates will be gunning for similar success with The Legend of Tarzan, a modern retelling of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic tale that places Alexander Skarsgård as king of the swingers.

Releasing in the thick of summer blockbuster season, at least on paper Legend of Tarzan toes the line between a bona fide hit and a commercial flop, and one need only look at the scathing reactions to Warcraft: The Beginning for evidence of a VFX-heavy tentpole bombing with critics.

Nevertheless, in re-introducing Tarzan to a modern audience, Yates and Warner Bros. have welcomed the industrious Margot Robbie as Jane Porter, love interest to Skarsgård’s character who follows her spouse’s primitive calling all the way back to the Congo jungle.

There, they...

Take a look @ more footage from director David Yates' new 3D live-action "Tarzan" movie, opening July 2016, starring Margot Robbie ('Harley Quinn' in "Suicide Squad") as 'Jane Porter', love interest of 'Lord Greystoke' (Alexander Skarsgård) aka 'Tarzan': 

"...it has been years since the man once known as 'Tarzan' left the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life...

"...as 'John Clayton III', aka 'Lord Greystoke' with his beloved wife, 'Jane' at his side.

"Now, he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by 'Captain Leon Rom'. 

"But those behind the murderous plot...

"...have no idea what they are about to unleash..."

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Director David Yates' take on The Legend of Tarzan will put a new spin on the classic Greystoke tale, beginning the story with a settled John Clayton being forced to return to his wild ways to come to the aid of his wife, Jane. This latest poster for the movie features the two leads surrounded by some jungle pals, who will no doubt come in very handy during the inevitable battle to come. It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan (Skarsgård) left the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life as John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, with his beloved wife, Jane (Robbie) at his side. Now, he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the Belgian, Leon Rom (Waltz). But those...

It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgård) left the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life in London as John Clayton III, Lord Greystoke, with his beloved wife, Jane Porter (Margot Robbie) at his side. Now, he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the corrupt Belgian Captain Rom (Christoph Waltz). The new movie stars Alexander Skarsgård, Samuel L. Jackson, Margot Robbie, Djimon Hounsou, and Christoph Waltz. “The Legend of Tarzan” hits theaters on July 1.

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Warner Bros. Pictures has released (via Fandango) the new new poster for The Legend Of Tarzan, which you can check out below.

The film is directed by David Yates and stars Alexander Skarsgård, Margot Robbie, Samuel L. Jackson, Christoph Waltz, and Djimon Hounsou.

It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan (Skarsgård) left the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life as John Clayton III, Lord Greystoke, with his beloved wife, Jane (Robbie) at his side. Now, he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the Belgian, Captain Leon Rom (Waltz). But those behind the murderous plot have no idea what they are about to unleash.

The Legend Of Tarzan will swing into theaters on July 1, 2016.

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Warner Bros. Pictures has released the first TV spot for The Legend Of Tarzan, which you can watch below.

The film is directed by David Yates and stars Alexander Skarsgård, Margot Robbie, Samuel L. Jackson, Christoph Waltz, and Djimon Hounsou.

It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan (Skarsgård) left the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life as John Clayton III, Lord Greystoke, with his beloved wife, Jane (Robbie) at his side. Now, he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the Belgian, Captain Leon Rom (Waltz). But those behind the murderous plot have no idea what they are about to unleash.

The Legend Of Tarzan will swing into theaters on July 1, 2016.

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Director David Yates' take on The Legend of Tarzan will put a new spin on the classic Greystoke tale, beginning the story with a settled John Clayton being forced to return to his wild ways to come to the aid of his wife, Jane. This first TV spot for the movie contains a few snippets of new footage - incuding one shot of Suicide Squad's Margot Robbie being attacked by a hippo. .   It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan (Skarsgård) left the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life as John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, with his beloved wife, Jane (Robbie) at his side. Now, he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the Belgian, Leon Rom (Waltz). But those...

They have no idea what they are about to unleash It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan (Skarsgård) left the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life as John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, with his beloved wife, Jane (Robbie) at his side.  Now, he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the Belgian, Leon Rom (Waltz).  But those behind the murderous plot have no idea what they are about to unleash. The Legend of Tarzan is directed by David Yates and stars Alexander Skarsgård, Samuel L.

The official trailer for The Legend of Tarzan has landed, directed by David Yates and starring Alexander Skarsgård, Margot Robbie, Christoph Waltz, Samuel L. Jackson and Djimon Hounsou.

It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan (Skarsgård) left thejungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life as John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, with his beloved wife, Jane (Robbie) at his side. Now, he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the Belgian, Captain Leon Rom (Waltz). But those behind the murderous plot have no idea what they are about to unleash.

The Legend of Tarzan swings into cinemas on July 1 2016.

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