Henry Jones VII said:
Both trailers are terrific, about this one I liked the introduction with Tarzan's parents, and also tell me if at the 0:11 mark that shot doesn't remind you of Indy? It does to me!
Sure, but it also reminds of several other movies including
Jurassic Park*.
* - I have absolutely zero interest in the further adventures of Dr. Jones.
I've watched this quite a few times over the past couple of days, and I give it full marks. Despite the obvious CGI (and useless at times) everything feels and looks top notch. The jungle looks phenomenal. Sure, most of it was filmed on a soundstage in England, but the on-location shooting they did in Gabon meshes quite well. It's all quite dark and foreboding; the way a untamed jungle should be. And as a Burroughs and Tarzan fan, this is closer in both tone and spirit to anything Hollywood has put over the last century. Well, except maybe the origin aspects of Greystoke. Those are
par excellence.
?You may not like who you were?.you may have enemies there, but you need to go home!?
This is an interesting -- and fabulously delivered by Mr. Hurt -- bit of dialogue. When combined with the clearly distressed shot of Jane and Tarzan in front of the tree, I can't help think that Lord Greystoke is... reluctant to return to Africa. The fact that Africa is referred to as 'home' is also interesting. Has Tarzan fully acclimated to the Victorian World and become John Clayton, Viscount Greystoke? Has he retained an undercurrent of the, say, primal that others recognize, but he can't? What is clear though is that he's not chomping at the bit to go back.
Sam Jackson is still something of an unknown in terms of the movie, but I am liking what I see so far. The mustache is a great touch. Read more
here.
No word on the Mangani unfortunately. Most of the clear images are quite convincing lowland/mountain gorillas, but there are a couple of really quick shots at the very end of the trailer that look very non-gorilla like. You'll need to pause the trailer at just the right time, but I think they look remarkably similar to how Burroughs described them in
Tarzan of the Apes.
Edgar Rice Burroughs said:
The tribe of anthropoids over which Kerchak ruled with an iron hand and bared fangs, numbered some six or eight families, each family consisting of an adult male with his females and their young, numbering in all some sixty or seventy apes. Kala . . . was large and powerful?a splendid, clean-limbed animal, with a round, high forehead, which denoted more intelligence than most of her kind possessed. So, also, she had a great capacity for mother love and mother sorrow. But she was still an ape, a huge, fierce, terrible beast of a species closely allied to the gorilla, yet more intelligent; which, with the strength of their cousin, made her kind the most fearsome of those awe-inspiring progenitors of man.
Hopefully this'll become clearer during the movie!
For any members in the southern half of California, there's a panel during next week's WonderCon. It might be the next chance to find out more information.
Tarzan: A Conversation with Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.
Jim Sullos (president) and Cathy Wilbanks (archivist) discuss the upcoming releases, featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs's famous literary heroes, including Warner Bros.' big-screen feature The Legend of Tarzan (2016), the animated Netflix Original Series Tarzan and Jane (2016), and comics, novels, role-playing games, and more based on Tarzan of the Apes, John Carter of Mars, Carson of Venus, Pellucidar, and The Land That Time Forgot. Moderated by Scott Tracy Griffin, author of Tarzan: The Centennial Celebration and the forthcoming Tarzan on Film.
Saturday March 26, 2016 10:30am - 11:30am
Room 502A
Otherwise, the next chance to get a glimpse might be at Warner Bros.' presentation at CinemaCon in Las Vegas. The studio is scheduled to present a sizzle reel of their forthcoming tentpoles for 2016 and beyond.
TUESDAY APRIL 12, 2016 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
LOCATION: The Colosseum?Casino Level WARNER BROS. PICTURES INVITES YOU TO ?THE BIG PICTURE?, AN EXCLUSIVE PRESENTATION HIGHLIGHTING THE SUMMER OF 2016 AND BEYOND
Hosted by: Kevin Tsujihara, Chairman and CEO, Warner Bros.
Sue Kroll, President, Worldwide Marketing and Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures
Veronika Kwan Vandenberg, President, Worldwide Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures