The studio plans to redesign the character for the 21st century.
Sony Pictures has acquired the movie rights to writer Edgar Rice Burroughs’ iconic hero Tarzan. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the studio plans to reinvent Tarzan for modern audiences. However, at this point, no scriptwriter, director or producer is affiliated with the project.
Tarzan’s well-known story follows an orphan boy raised by monkeys in the jungle. As an adult, Tarzan falls in love with a young woman named Jane and moves with him to England. After learning how barbaric the so-called civilization really is, he returns to Africa.
First published in 1912, the story has been adapted for film and television countless times in live-action and animated form. The last movie that brought Tarzan to the big screen was 2016’s “The Legend of Tarzan”. Starring Alexander Skarsgard and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Christoph Waltz and Margot Robbie, the film was directed by David Yates. The film, which received average reviews, grossed approximately $357 million worldwide.
The new approach designed by Sony includes some of the inherent problems with the original material; It is predicted that he will address their attitudes towards colonialism, white liberation mentality, and old racial and gender stereotypes.
