Put Warner Brothers to shame once again? Done right, Tarzan is a character suitable for a new franchise. There's Queen La and the Leopard Men, the lost city of Opar, the Hollow Earth world of Pellucidar, etc. A lot of cool stuff. How I wish Stephen Sommers could take the helm. He'd do it and play it straight but make it fun like the first two Mummy movies.
shareDisney doesn't own Tarzan. so no life-action remake.
shareSince the first Tarzan book was written in 1912, the property has got to be public domain now. So any movie studio can make a Tarzan film this century, unless there are copyright issues I'm not aware of.
The rights went back to Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. But apparently one story called 'Tarzan and the Golden Lion' is in the public domain.
shareAre we still in an era where we assuming that once Disney gets involved they're going to make something good? It seems to me that they are incredibly hit-or-miss these days. They MIGHT turn out something good or they might instead put out some useless, politicized garbage that the world is now worse for having.
shareWell looks like Sony got the rights back.
https://deadline.com/2022/09/sony-acquires-rights-to-tarzan-will-take-swing-at-reinventing-movie-franchise-1235132556/
“Reinventing.” That scares the shit out of me.
shareIf they did, Jane would be a PoC and would end up saving Tarzan repeatedly.
sharePlayed by Laverne Cox.
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