From John Carter to Tarzan

Michael Sellers Tarzan

From TG Daily by David Konow

Even though Hollywood often seems like it is out of ideas, there are still plenty of franchises in the vaults waiting to be reborn, and then rebooted a scant 10 years later.

In this regard, I’m rather curious as to where Tarzan could land in today’s pop culture landscape. Now that director David Yates is done with the Harry Potter series, it’s been reported on Deadline he may be up to revive Tarzan, the legendary lord of the jungle that was created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, who also wrote John Carter.

Warner Brothers apparently owns the movies rights to the legendary ape man, and perhaps they want to keep Yates under the studio umbrella and help bring back one of their most legendary properties.

All this comes at a rather interesting time because there’s now an Edgar Rice Burroughs postage stamp to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of Tarzan and John Carter. As website TheJohnCarterFiles tells us, the stamp is a “forever” stamp, which means you can use it to send something First Class forever, no matter how much postage rates change in the future.

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3 comments

  • This could be very interesting, if the project works out. A big hit with a Tarzan reboot at a leading studio like Warner Bros., with an accomplished director like David Yates, could only mean good things for ERB. And perhaps if their Tarzan reboot is successful they might become interested in a reboot of a certain other Burroughs property…

  • “As website TheJohnCarterFiles tells us, the stamp is a “forever” stamp, which means you can use it to send something First Class forever, no matter how much postage rates change in the future.”

    You press monger! I’m joking 🙂 I just wonder though how long we’ll hear that Yates is attached to direct since it seems every few years some new director is making Tarzan.

    Also maybe it’s just me but looking at the picture of Taylor Kitsch they used he might have made a good Tarzan in both looks and acting chops (as long as Tarzan didn’t become whiny over his cave of gold. Then again Opar would be cool to see on screen correctly).

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