An interesting read:
When the Disney classic Tarzan was released in 1999, it had the honor of being Disney’s most expensive animated feature to date, costing massive $130 million. But, despite all that money being poured into the film, BuzzFeed think they may have found one thing that Disney skimped on when creating the character of Tarzan: Facial hair.
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As Variety reports, the coming months will see some major content coming to kid’s TV channels, and among them an Edgar Rice Burroughs classic! As they Explain:
Netflix: Edgar Rice Burroughs’ “Tarzan and Jane” is a modern-day animated remake that reimagines the pair as crime-solving teens in London (2016).
Exciting for all fans of animation and jungle adventures. There’s a lot of other picks for the other networks, so make sure you head to Variety and check out the interesting article there!
Great piece in John Carter files:
Alexander Skarsgard has let go the first volley in terms of serious discussion about what to expect from David Yates’s Tarzan next July. It comes in an interview with Mike Ryan. Now, some of this has to be discounted beause actors always say the character was intriguing, the director was fantastic, and so on. Okay — we get that. But even allowing for that, Skarsgard’s comments are interesting and, to my taste at least, encouraging:
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Great news bit from yahoo yesterday in case you msissed it:
Alexander Skarsgård Dressed Like Farrah Fawcett for ‘Diary of a Teenage Girl’ Premiere Alexander Skarsgård, center, with actress Bel Powley, left, and director Marielle Heller at the San Francisco premiere of The Diary Of a Teenage Girl. Alexander Skarsgård is a beautiful man — and makes a stunning woman. At the premiere of his new movie, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, on Monday night, the Swedish actor walked the red carpet at San Francisco’s Castro Theater in a floor-length gold dress. He paired the gown with crystal-embellished heels — even though he’s 6 feet 4 inches without them — carried a silver clutch, and accessorized with large gold hoop earrings. He also had on a feathered blonde wig and full face of makeup, including fake eyelashes, blushed cheeks, and a statement pink lip.Read the full article Right Here! (Photo: Getty Images)
A little press release from Mark Madler about what’s coming ahead for ERB:
Jim Sullos, a retired accountant who serves as president of ERB, said 2016 should be a good year for the Burroughs stable of characters. Next summer, Warner Bros. Entertainment will release a new “Tarzan” movie with Alexander Skarsgard and Samuel L. Jackson. An animated series “Tarzan and Jane” will begin streaming on Netflix in fall of 2016, and there are plans for reprinting comic strips of Tarzan and launching a John Carter role-playing game.
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The new york journal of books wrote a piece about the Dailies:
“moving and deeply beautiful art illustrating stories of risk, choices, loss and life.”
The strips collected in Tarzan of the Apes: The Original Dailies: LOAC Essentials Vol 7 portray the original Tarzan. The one that has quickly become one of the most recognizable characters in the history of fiction.
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(February 10, 2015 – Tarzana, CA) Netflix announced today it will premiere four new animated shows, adding to its award winning lineup of original television series for kids. The shows range from action adventure stories Kulipari: An Army of Frogs and Edgar Rice Burroughs™ Tarzan and Jane™ to preschool shows Cirque du Soleil Luna Petunia and Puffin Rock.
“We couldn’t be more excited to be partnering with such a diverse group of creative talent on these new Netflix series for kids,” says Erik Barmack, Netflix VP of Global Independent Content. “The flexibility of our platform allows us to continually bring the best TV shows from around the world to our members, and these titles compliment and extend what we currently offer particularly for preschoolers and grade school adventure fans.”
Tarzan and Jane – from 41 Entertainment, Executive Producer Avi Arad (Arad Animation) and with animation from ARC Productions – is a new kids series based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ collection of stories about his iconic characters, Tarzan and Jane. In this modern-day remake, 16 year old Tarzan returns from the African jungle to a London boarding school where he is a fish-out-of-water and challenges conformity. There he meets Jane, Tarzan’s ultimate partner, who helps him solve environmental injustice, crimes and mysteries. The eight episode season will premiere worldwide exclusively on Netflix during the second half of 2016.
Venture Galleries just posted a great interview with the author of the latest Tarzan book:
PROLIFIC ADVENTURE WRITER Will Murray is a pulp savant. There are few other current pulp scholars who can match his knowledge of the wide range of pulps. Will has written uncountable introductions to pulp related anthologies, collections, and reprints. He has single handedly resurrected the career of one of pulps greatest heroes in his series, The Wild Adventures of Doc Savage from Altus Press.
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The Riverside Press-Enterprise reports (http://bit.ly/1BnpuNM ) that the graffiti-ravaged house that local legend said was visited or lived in by Johnny Weissmuller, who starred in Tarzan movies in the 1930s and ’40s is being dismantled.
Announcing the latest addition to the Tarzan lore, written by Will Murray
With the African continent engulfed by World War II, John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, abandons his role as Lord of the Jungle in order to combat the spreading Nazi menace.
Flying a P40 Tomahawk warplane, Clayton is sent on his first mission: to rescue the missing British Military Intelligence officer code-named Ilex. But the daring task plunges him into his savage past after he’s forced down in a lost land that seems hauntingly familiar.
When Tarzan of the Apes returns to the prehistoric realm called Pal-ul-don, he must revert to his most savage persona, that of Tarzan-jad-guru—Tarzan the Terrible!
