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No deals have been made, but I am hearing that things are getting serious between Warner Bros and Harry Potter director David Yates on Tarzan, the long gestating film about the tree swinging ape man. At the same time, Paramount is courting Christopher McQuarrie for Without Remorse, an equally long gestating thriller based on the Tom Clancy book about Clark the mercenary who appeared in the Jack Ryan films, and who was played in Clear in Present Danger by Willem Dafoe. In Without Remorse, Clark is a Navy SEAL turned CIA operative who is bent on revenge after a drug dealer kills his girl. Warner Bros has denied Yates is set and Paramount insiders have said they would look to McQuarrie for a new draft of a script originated by Shawn Ryan. But Paramount is high on McQuarrie for the job he did directing Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher, based on the Lee Child novels. Stay tuned.
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Really? Tarzan?
A white man raised by apes, yet still maintaining his God-given royal bearing. In 2012?
Give it up, guys.
Yes–believe it!The world’s best known literary character.Only Dracula and Sherlock Holmes get close to his fame.Can you say ARCHETYPE?
What is amazing: Not one movie has been very close to the original 24 books, even though many of the books are perfect as they are for adaption to film.Any director should look at Joe Kubert’s comic adaptions of ERB’s books as a storyboard and art direction. Positively BRILLIANT distillation of what Burroughs wrote. MGM,Disney are all wretched, inferior takes on a fantastic character.
…They have got to go to one of the better books of the tarzan series and do it right…for once.Get an actor built like a swimmer/gymnast for the simple reason that that would be his physique based on his lifestyle in the jungle.Just do it right for once!!!…tarzan the terible, tarzan the invincible are good choices….and no more midget actors playing iconic heroes who were at least six three or better in height.loo at Chris Reeve, the perfect Superman.No cheetah, please.no little boy companion.tarzan’s best animal companion was a lion named Jad-bal-ja.Some of those original tarzan books were action-packed adventures which can easily be translated into the type of movies todays patience-intolerant customers would love.
I know that may be not very nice, but the last Edgar Rice Burroughs incarnation on screen was the “John Carter” flop. Curious who will be interested in a new Tarzan movie today. I simply can`t imagine this becoming a success. And furthermore I simply don´t get what a director like Mr. Yates finds interesting in this property, after the character has crossed every medium (books, TV, movies, musicals) for the last 100 years.
If they all fish out of water it and get Channing Tatum to play Tarzan, then the captured ape-man rehabilitated to become some super CEO in modern and civilized society could be cool… Either way, do glad McQuarrie is rising from the ashes!
Joe Manganiello