Disney released its take on the jungle king in 1999, replete with an incongruous (but Oscar-winning) Phil Collins soundtrack.īeattie and Sommers do not plan to work from the original 1914 Burroughs tome or any previous film. Over the decades, Tarzan has come in for any number of epic treatments, from John Derek’s 1981 Jane-driven “Tarzan, the Ape Man,” to the 1984 drama “Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes,” which famously earned pseudonymous screenwriter Robert Towne’s dog, P.H.
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With the first two “Mummy” movies, “The Scorpion King” and “Van Helsing,” Sommers, who is repped by WMA, has become a connoisseur of the big-budget, effects-driven spectacle. Watch Tarzan the Ape Man, English Movie directed by John Derek, starring Bo Derek, Richard Harris and John Phillip Law full. But “The Mummy” director will get his shot now that Del Toro is committed to a four-year stint choreographing dwarves in New Zealand for the MGM-Warner Bros. Guillermo del Toro had been attached to direct a script written by John Collee (“Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World”) when the project was announced two years ago. Camelot (Original 1982 London Cast Soundtrack) (1982). Stream songs including 'Two Worlds', 'Youll Be In My Heart' and more. Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981) Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid (1981) Triumphs of a Man Called. Jessica Goodman and Jesse Ehrman will oversee for the studio. Listen to Tarzan (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by Phil Collins & Mark Mancina on Apple Music. Jerry Weintraub (“Ocean’s Eleven”) is producing through his Jerry Weintraub Prods. “Collateral” screenwriter Stu Beattie will write the project with Sommers. to bring a new version of the classic Edgar Rice Burroughs creation “Tarzan, Lord of the Apes,” to the big screen. The “Jungle Book” director is in negotiations with Warner Bros. He’s already tackled Huckleberry Finn and Mowgli, so let’s see what Stephen Sommers can do with Tarzan.