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A More Pirates -Like Tarzan ?
ComingSoon.net - 30 most recent stories — Entertainment Weekly reports that director Stephen Sommers and screenwriter Stuart Beattie are setting Warner Bros. Pictures' new Tarzan movie in the 1930s and ditching the boy-raised-by-apes origin story. "The action-adventure icon will trash his loincloth and throw on a pair of khakis for the next big screen take on Edgar Rice Burroughs' classic character," says the magazine. "Think 'Pirates of the Caribbean' with buffed-and-tanned actors flying through the jungle and sprinting up trees, parkour-style." Beattie of course co-wrote the first "Pirates of the ...

Tarzan Being Done Pirates Of The Caribbean Style
Cinema Blend News — Tarzan Being Done Pirates Of The Caribbean Style While everyone else is busy doing their level best to rip off The Dark Knight and Twilight , director Stephen Sommers is borrowing inspiration from the country’s previous box office obsession, Pirates of the Caribbean . According to EW , his new Tarzan movie will be similar in tone to Disney’s piratical, CGI-fest. It seems Sommers and his screenwriter Stuart Beattie are ditching the boy raised by apes origin story and going for a 1930s romance romp. I’m not sure how you make a Tarzan movie without having the lead ...

Revisionist Tarzan Leaves Out Tarzan
At The Movies - Film News and Reviews — ... Entertainment Weekly has a bit about a new version of Tarzan, set to be directed by Stephen Sommers (the Mummy movies, amongst other big action-adventurers) and written by Stuart Beattie (the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie, the current Australia). ...

Stephen Sommers Wants Tarzan Doing Parkour
Film School Rejects — ... and do something completely ridiculous. As Entertainment Weekly’s Christine Spines is reporting, “Director Stephen Sommers and screenwriter Stuart Beattie (Australia) are ditching the boy-raised-by-apes origin story for a 1930’s-set romp with a hefty helping of romance: Think Pirates of the Caribbean with buffed-and-tanned actors flying through the jungle and sprinting up trees, parkour-style.”  ...

Newsbites: The comics and remakes edition!
FilmChat — ... flicks (2003-2007); he is reportedly "ditching the boy-raised-by-apes origin story for a 1930's-set romp with a hefty helping of romance . . . with buffed-and-tanned actors flying through the jungle and sprinting up trees, parkour-style." -- Entertainment Weekly ...

Stephen Sommers’ Tarzan will be Pirates of the Caribbean with Parkour… Wait, What?
/Film — ... And now hack directors are starting to adopt the buzz word. Van Hellsing director Stephen Sommers claims that his upcoming big screen re-imagining of Tarzan will incorporate the technique. According to Entertainment Weekly, the new Tarzan will be more like Pirates of the Caribbean, “with buffed-and-tanned actors flying through the jungle and sprinting up trees, parkour-style.” Wow, yeah, I have no faith in Sommers. ...

New Tarzan Poised To Wear Gap Khakis
RopeofSilicon.com — Entertainment Weekly has the scoop on Stephen Sommers' proposed new take on the Tarzan tale and it is quite odd to say the least. The details read: ...

New Tarzan Film To Take on Parkour and Pirates Style
FirstShowing.net — ... will take his new Tarzan film. According to Entertaiment Weekly, the project is said to jettison the origin angle and inspire images of "Pirates of the Caribbean with buffed-and-tanned actors flying through the jungle and sprinting up trees, parkour-style." If that weren't souring enough, the film is apparently aiming to be a "1930's-set romp with a hefty helping of romance" and will take on a mixed setting of city and jungle. Not that I was particularly interested in this to begin, but I'm even less so now. Sommers' direction, in a larger ...

Film Junk Weekend Wrap-Up: Emo Boy, The Fountain Recut, Bret Easton Ellis
Film Junk — ... Trailers Little Ashes The Great Buck Howard Ghostbusters: The Game Some Stories We Didn’t Cover David Fincher’s Torso Might Not Happen Darren Aronofsky Wants To Release An Alternate Cut of The Fountain Kyle Newman to Direct Emo Boy 2009 Sundance Festival Competition Line-Up Revealed 2009 Sundance Festival Non-Competition Line-Up Announced Parkour + Pirates = Tarzan Len Wiseman to Direct Atlantis Rising Bret ...

Tarzan Will Swing It Again
UGO - Movies RSS Feed — Tarzan Will Swing It Again Tarzan Tarzan is getting another makeover, says Entertainment Weekly . “The action-adventure icon will trash his loincloth and throw on a pair of khakis for the next big screen take on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic character, who first appeared in 1912. Director Stephen Sommers ( The Mummy ) and screenwriter Stuart Beattie ( Australia ) are ditching the boy-raised-by-apes origin story for a 1930’s-set romp with a hefty helping of romance: Think Pirates of the Caribbean with buffed-and-tanned actors flying through the jungle and sprinting up trees, ...