Well this doesn't sound good.

*sigh*

Here we go again.

Sigh.

Is anybody in Hollywood even capable of writing/making a movie with a good script?
Or do they think mere special effects will do the trick?

See Star Trek 2009, Transformers II for movies that have no believable script to speak of, and have to get their audiences through XF only.
Basically: no-brainers.

Try filming Legend of Galactic Heroes or some of the current SF novels out there.

There are just some things you should NOT mess with -- Tarzan is one of them. Why can't someone come up with a classy retelling of the classic?

"It's mainly new stuff, because it's the kind of stuff that Edgar Rice Burroughs, I don't think, could have possibly imagined,"

Wow, ERB makes a fortune writing books and creating well-known literary characters, and this bum has the nerve to thow out a comment like that.

He obviously wasn't aware that Edgar Rice Burroughs did in fact produce a Tarzan movie in 1935, The New Adventures of Tarzan. It is the Tarzan movie closest to the original books, at least for the earlier movies.

I found Casper Van Dien's version of Tarzan to be not that bad. It was watchable.

I don't think this re-boot will be good, though, nor do I think its needed now.

Well, let's see, they could actually adapt one of the books! Del Toro was going to do that. He wanted to show the world Tarzan as he appears in the books. I'm really sorry that he isn't involved. And this moron has the nerve (or stupidity) to mention that ERB was thinking in terms of movie budgets when he wrote his books??? This is nothing short of rape.

Wow, Hollywood is going to take another great story and "reboot" it. I am so fed up with "rebooting" movies. How about they come up with an original idea or just option one of the many great novels available.

While most of the movies I have seen lately are watchable, the stories and character development are seriously lacking. They are fun to watch but I don't leave the theater saying - "Man that was an amazing story".

Oh and by the way - screw you too Syfy.

While I agree that this sounds awful, in all fairness the original Tarzan novel would be really difficult to adapt closely, as so much of it revolves around him growing up with the apes.

I recently watched both the original Weismuller film (really good fun although little to do with the book) and the Lambert version (dull, with unconvincing acting all around, but roughly following parts of the book), and I think the Disney cartoon version probably follows the book best. Of course it doesn't have the ape effect problems any other version would.

I'd love to see it done justice, or just read more often nowadays (ERB was a tremendous storyteller), but I can't see it happening.

What a waste of time and money to "reboot Tarzan" (YAWN)! Seems like Hollywood movie executives imagine that they can make a movie about Tarzan that isn't "Tarzanesque" at all. Guess that Edgar Rice Burroughs is spinning in his grave about now!

KISS - keep to the books, and you will (if the casting is good) have a great movie!

As far as telling the actual story goes, The Legend of Greystoke comes closest, but even it bombs halfway through-- the moment the movie becomes a story about Tarzan trying to cope with civilization in his uncle/grandfather's mansion it becomes something altogether different than the authentic Tarzan...

Also, FRENCH was the first spoken language Tarzan acquired, and so broken English with a French accent was actually right on the money.

Yes please. If you JUST follow the stories from the books, you'll do fine.

Isn't the whole "deep, darkest Africa" myth just a bunch of crap? Seriously, why not a story about the deep, dark Europe?

There was never anything mysterious about the jungles of Africa more so than the mysteries of the forests of North America or Europe except for the need to make Africa this singular continent unlike Europe.

How many idiots still think of Africa as being one country with one people who all speak the same language?

This is all colonial-era racist clap trap served up for a 21 Century audience.

I went to Hollywood to play myself in 1931 but was fired from the set. Ed wrote about it in the seventeenth volume of my biography, but of course Mr. Beattie won't know about that since he has never read the books. Some things never change. Men are strange beasts indeed.

Can you really adapt Tarzan books though? Really?

I mean seriously, they are products of their time, and there is no way the incredible amounts of racism and sexism could be changed, that would not fundamentally change the nature of the stories.

And seriously, that 17th book is a hoot. Read it, and then watch the movies, what a great combo.

I like the idea of trying to get a mythic pulp feel to it, the Europeans did have this whole weird "deepest darkest Africa" thing goin at the time.

and Miles O'Keeffe's was insanely hot in that movie, he did have the right vibe goin for the jungle man. You could almost smell the earthy, musky scent.

Fly? FLY!! if tarzan flies in this movie I may just get up and walk out! 7 bucks or not!

Am I the only one who is offended by the way Africa is constantly portrayed as practically another planet by Hollywood? It is a real continent filled with natural wonders, but nothing like Burroughs invented. Can we please just leave the stereotypical "deepest, darkest Africa" crap behind us? To be specific, in the junk heap? From Burroughs to Crichton with his ridiculous "Congo", Hollywood never seems to understand. Africa has so many more things that are interesting about it, and thousands of years of history that remain largely ignored by the West. Make that into a movie.

Yeah, it would be really nice if they went to the books for source material. Yes, I understand there is a lot of dated, racially offensive stuff, but its not pivotal to the plots and can be reworked. I mean the Tarzan books are full of great ideas, like lost Roman cities, Prehistoric lands, even travelling to the Earth's Core to fight dinosaurs and cavemen. Tarzan has battled all kinds of foes from degenerated Atlanteans to mental wizards using giant diamonds to project their powers. What is this guy looking for? Pick up a book and read it, you lazy vidiot, there's plenty for a great script, and with great writing and great talent with a great budget, it will work. Since Tarzan and I got back from the Earth's Core, though Africa's not been the same. Sigh.....

I don't think he literally means that Tarzan will fly.

"Tarzan can fly around on all these trees and do amazing acrobatics" to me, means he'll be jumping about, swinging from tree to tree and just generally Tarzan-ing it up but in a modern, swirly-cam, CGI way.

When someone in the UK or Ireland says they're flying about, they don't mean it literally. They mean they're darting around the place in a hurry.

Also, I have no reall attachment to Tarzan so I'm keeping an open mind on this one. It might be fun. Might be awful too, I suppose.

Heretic! Burn him at the stake! Chris Lambert's Tarzan was probably closest, at least in spirit, to the original ERB character, but even that was way off the mark. Tarzan's Africa provides a gold mine for CGI. For Christ sake, you don't need him to fly too! What audience are you aiming for? Pre-teen?