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Sony seeks to reinvent Tarzan for the new century

Sony seeks to reinvent Tarzan for the new century

For now there are no writers, directors or producers for the project. As The Hollywood Reporter learned, the first medium to report the newsthe studio wants to completely reimagine the Ape Man for 21st century audiences.

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Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan in 1936.

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The original story of Tarzan is more than well known: an orphan child is raised in the jungle by gorillasFalls in love of a girl named Jane, leaves the jungle for her, they get married and they move to england where his perspective expands on how barbaric the supposed civilization isuntil he returns to Africa. Among all this, there appear different adventures from fighting lions to discovering lost cities.

His stories were an instant success when they were published in 1912. and remained at the zenith of pop culture for decades thanks to movies, series, radio programs, television and comics. She had a huge comeback at the end of the last century when Disney made its animated adaptation with music by Phil Collins.

Warner Bros. tried to build a new franchise in 2016. But the initial film, with Alexander Skarsgard and Margot Robbie, failed to captivate the audience.

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Alexander Skarsgard as Tarzan.

Alexander Skarsgard as Tarzan.

Warner Bros.

This point, and the possibility of a reimagining, revolve around the criticisms that were made about the original story. They remark colonialism or stereotypes of race and gender that were common in the stories of the beginning of the 20th century.

Also it is interesting that the mark and early Tarzan stories are actually in the public domain. The rights to later stories, that Burroughs wrote well into the 1940s, are the ones that remain as property of his heirs.

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