Craig Brewer Adapting Live-Action ‘Tarzan’ Aimed At Trilogy
After three movies set in the South –Hustle and Flow, Black Snake Moanand the upcomingFootloose–Craig Breweris going somewhere even hotter for his next film. He’s going into the jungle. At least that’s the hope as he’s just signed a deal with Warner Bros. to write and direct a new take on the classicEdgar Rice BurroughsstoryTarzan. Brewer’s take, though, isn’t just a one-shot deal, he has an idea that would be a three-story arc.
Deadline brokethe news of Brewer’s deal and said that hes hopes the first film of theTarzantrilogy would be his next directing gig afterFootloose, but that’s probably contingent on him writing a script the studio can get behind.
Ever since the forgettable 1999 animated Disney film, Hollywood has been trying to get another live action version ofTarzanoff the ground. A few years ago Stephen Sommers (G.I. Joe The Rise of Cobra)was developing onewith screenwriterStuart Beattie, screenwriterAdam Cozadwas also working on a take and then producers were thinking ofdoing another animated film. None of these projects got off the ground though.
Brewer is certainly talented and the Tarzan story is most definitely a universally loved and exciting one, but does the world want another Tarzan story? Doesn’t it feel like developing a big, jungle adventure right after the success ofPirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, is simply reactionary?
In case you’ve been raised by apes and don’t know what the Tarzan story is, it’s about a young child whose family is marooned on in a remote jungle and killed. He’s then raised by a family of apes as one of their own. Later, another family is marooned in the same place and come upon Tarzan, forcing him to deal with the fact that’s hes a human and not an ape.
Do you think a new take on the Tarzan story is something audiences can get behind?
