Category: Tarzan
Move over St. John, Krenkel, Frazetta — and Make Room for Zdenek Burian’s Stunning Tarzan Illustrations
TweetWhen you walk through the front door of Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc. the first walls you see are decorated with the extraordinary illustrations of Czech master Zdenek Burian. These illustrations […]
Recent Legend of Tarzan News
Tweet I’m going to post links to Tarzan posts once in awhile here, just so those who aren’t checking over there where the Tarzan posts live can have a look […]
Tarzan as a Demigod of the Forest? ERB’s Favorite Description and What it Reveals
TweetMuch has been made of Tarzan as the prototype for what would become the Superhero in the pulps and comics. “Without Tarzan, there could be no Batman” is one way of […]
Legend of Tarzan: Scott Mendelson’s Commentary on Forbes Provides Food For Thought
TweetScott Mendelson is one of the more astute and fair-minded observers out there. His work on John Carter was some of the best I came across during that episode […]
Legend of Tarzan: Christoph Waltz, Samuel Jackson to play compelling real world historical characters
Tweetby Rick Barry From what we know about director David Yates’ new Tarzan film (due in 2016), we have every right to expect that he and his team are making […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
Influencing the Influencers: Is Warner Bros Falling Behind with the Promotion of David Yates’s Tarzan 2016?
TweetThere’s a cable TV news host out there who does a segment “Talk Me Down” in which the commentator does a rant about something that’s bothering her, and has a knowledgable […]
Fans Hoping For a Successful Tarzan 2016 Need to Go to These Negative Articles and Comment
TweetWarner Brothers and Tarzan have just taken a significant hit in the first battle to establish a favorable narrative for Tarzan 2016. Establishing a favorable narrative is hugely important; we […]
Frank Westwood, Co-Founder of the British Edgar Rice Burroughs Society
Tweetby Laurence Dunn — Frank Westwood, one of the founders of the British Edgar Rice Burroughs Society and editor of the society’s journal The Fantastic Worlds of ERB, has sadly […]
WB’s Tarzan Showing Exciting Signs of Life: The Extraordinary Christoph Waltz Eyed for the Villain
TweetVariety and other entertainment outlets are reporting that the thoroughly amazing Christoph Waltz is in talks to play the villain in WB’s Tarzan, which had been slated to go into […]
The Edgar Rice Burroughs Centennial DVD “100 Years of Tarzan and John Carter” is Here
TweetThe Official Edgar Rice Burroughs Two Disk Centennial DVD Set, co-produced by Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc. and The John Carter Files, is now available (and two more disks are coming) […]
“Tarzan and the Light of Knowledge” — by Cynthia Sheppard is just brilliant
TweetEvery once in awhile you come across something that is so right and true and beautiful that it stops you in your tracks and gives you goosebumps. That just happened […]
Rus Wornom: Review of 100 Years of Tarzan and John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood
TweetRus Wornom, a frequent and cogent commenter here, has posted two reviews on his blog, which also has a lot of other interesting material on it.
Video: Constantin Films’ New Theatrical Trailer for Tarzan
TweetConstantin Films has finally come out with a full theatricaal trailer for their upcoming 3D motion capture Tarzan film starring Kellen Lutz as Tarzan and Spencer Locke as Jane. What […]
