WB Releases Legend of Tarzan Trailer — Here it is!
TweetWB is on a roll — first the Legend of Tarzan stills yesterday, then the poster this morning, now the trailer. It’s happening folks. SYNOPSIS ETC From Warner Bros. […]
WB Launches Social Media Accounts for Legend of Tarzan
TweetThe last 24 hours have been lively for Warner Brothers’ Legend of Tarzan. First there were two stills, then the poster, now there are social media accounts for the movie. […]
WB Releases Legend of Tarzan Poster
TweetRight on the heels of releasing the first stills, Warner Brothers has released the (a?) poster for Legend of Tarzan. The poster features Alexander Skarsgard and an ape…..a very interesting […]
Legend of Tarzan: Roundup of 50 Links to Online Coverage of Release of First Stills
TweetHere are links to the English language media coverage thus far of the release of Legend of Tarzan tills yesterday by Warner Brothers. ‘Legend of Tarzan‘: First Look at Alexander […]
First Two Stills From Legend of Tarzan — Skarsgard, Robbie, as Tarzan and Jane
TweetAt long, long last Warner Brothers has unveiled the first two stills from the Legend of Tarzan via a USA Today article that just appeared. Both images are credited to Jonathan […]
More Skarsgard re TARZAN: On “integrity,” “character,” and how the “beast inside” slowly comes out
TweetThe upcoming release of Diary of a Teenage Girl with Alexander Skarsgard in a leading role is producing a flood of quotes from Skarsgard about that film — and a […]
Brom’s Tarzan — One of the Best I’ve Seen, by an Artist WIth Genuine Vision
TweetEvery day I see dozens if not hundreds of images of heroic art, courtesy of all the fans on all the Edgar Rice Burroughs and Sword and Sorcery sites and […]
Shelf Life: Happy to Be Feeling Like a Dum Dum by Ron Marz
TweetRon Marz, writing in Comic Book Resources, about the just completed Dum Dum: The town of Clinton, Connecticut, is like any number of small New England villages. Perched on the […]
Saturday Evening Post Says Tarzan is the First Superhero — and Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Creation of Him Marked a “Major Turning Point”
TweetA Saturday Evening Post article by Jeff Nilsson under the title How Tarzan’s Author Did it All Wrong and Got it All Right makes a major good point and one […]
2015 Dum Dum Memories Courtesy of the Burroughs Family
TweetIt all began in 1962 when the Burroughs Bibliophiles were formed as an adjunct to the science fiction Worldcon. This was during the first wave of the great 1960s Edgar […]
Now THERE is some Rocket Science; Watch it Land
TweetJeff Bezos’s Blue Origin’s rocket has done something we’ve only seen in sci-fi — land. One of the most exciting things in space travel seen in a long time. […]
Looks like “Legend of Tarzan” is the Title of WB’s Pic
TweetTwo Warner Brothers Executives, Alexandra Lewis and Neil Marshall, presented WB’s 2016 slate to DCM (Digital Cinema Media) and, at least according to Digital Cinema Media, the title under which […]
“Africa of the Mind” in 1912: The Books That Helped Edgar Rice Burroughs write Tarzan of the Apes
TweetI’ve been a little quiet lately, in part because I’ve been doing some research on the “Africa of the mind” that Edgar Rice Burroughs had access to as he was […]
Would Edgar Rice Burroughs Have Approved of Alexander Skarsgard as Tarzan?
TweetNo one has a better idea of what Tarzan should look like, what his demeanor should be, how he should carry himself — than Tarzan’s creator Edgar Rice Burroughs. Burroughs […]
Pan is as big a disaster for WB as John Carter was for Disney; $150M film brings in $15M Opening Weekend
TweetOne would think that no marketing campaign could be as clumsy and tone deaf as Disney’s John Carter campaign, but then along comes AJoe Wright’s Pan, distributed by Warner Brothers […]
Seeing the Martian in Theaters Is Like Flying in a One-Man Flier Over the Dead Sea Bottoms of Barsoom
TweetI was expecting The Martian to be a visual treat, but what I hadn’t anticipated was the technique that Ridley Scott used on almost all of the scenes on exterior […]
Jane Goodall Sees Tarzan as a potential global voice for the environment, talks of her childhood crush on the Edgar Rice Burroughs character
TweetSpeaking at the Centennial Celebration of the creation of Tarzan and John Carter of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs on August 18, primatologist and global icon Jane Goodall recalled how […]
Q and A With Artist Gregory Manchess
TweetOne of my favorite pieces of Barsoom art that wasn’t done by St. John, Krenkel, Frazetta, or any of the “usual suspects” of Barsoomian artists is by Gregory Manchess, and […]
The Elusive, Impulsive Magic of Edgar Rice Burroughs
TweetI have been lately re-reading Irwin Porges massive biography of Edgar Rice Burroughs, one of the pleasures of which is the passionate introduction, written in 1975, by Ray Bradbury. In […]
A Split Screen Comparison of The Mars of Andrew Stanton in John Carter vs The Mars of Ridley Scott’s the Martian
TweetSo how do the last two movies about mars look side by side in terms of Mars is presented? Here’s what we did. First, I tried to get the images […]
Who or What IS John Carter of Virginia by Jerry Alan Kimbro
TweetA guest post by Jerry Alan Kimbro I am currently re-reading Edgar Rice Burroughs’ original Mars Trilogy (Published in three volumes: A Princess of Mars, Gods of Mars, and Warlord […]
At last! A Tarzan 2016 Test Screening Viewer Gives David Yates a Solid Thumbs Up and Leaks Intriguing Details [Updates]
TweetAt last, it has finally happened — someone who saw a test screening of David Yates’ TARZAN has leaked some fascinating and detailed observations. There is of course no way to 100 […]
Move Over Tolkien, Conan Doyle: Edgar Rice Burroughs Fans Rule Facebook
TweetAs a fan of Edgar Rice Burroughs, I have enjoyed discovering other fans on Facebook, Twitter, etc — and enjoy the posts, the art, the discussion. A week or so […]
Overheard on FB: “Is ERB Now Just Masturbatory Fodder for Perennial Adolescents?”
TweetThe cosplay Dejah above is a huge favorite with ERB fans–and in fact, when it was posted a few hours ago on one of the ERB Facebook sites, it picked […]
“Very good!” — first comments on an advance viewing of the Tarzan 2016 trailer
TweetThis is pretty thin soup, but given the recent run of bad news for WB’s Tarzan, I figured this is worth sharing. On the Internet Movie Data Base message board […]
For our fantasy reboot of John Carter of Mars, we select for the role of Dejah Thoris . . . .
TweetSo if there’s fantasy football — why not a fantasy reboot of John Carter of Mars? To do this, it will be necessary to assemble a fantasy cast and crew. First […]
Margot Robbie Gets a LIttle Friendly Press for Tarzan
TweetIt’s not exactly a major breakthrough, but Margot Robbie has managed to create a minor bit of positivity by posting on her Instagram a video of her swinging on a […]
The Box Office Tragedy of WB’s last Tarzan Movie, Plus the Pan Box Office Disaster, Define WB’s Challenge for Tarzan 2016
TweetPan opened with a disastrous $15.5M in Domestic U.S. Box Office. How bad is that? Well, Pan cost $150M to make and did $15.5M; John Carter cost $267M to make […]
Uh oh, here it comes: The Tarzan Negativity Narrative has begun. What will WB do to Counter It?
TweetHere comes that sinking feeling again. In a flash, it suddenly looks like Warner Brothers’ efforts to have calm and positive rollout of Tarzan have just taken a significant hit with the […]
It’s official — Skarsgard: No loincloth for Tarzan 2016
TweetWhat’s your first thought when you hear that, per Alexander Skarsgard in a new interview, the Tarzan that he and David Yates have cooked up doesn’t end up wearing a […]