Tarzan Set To Swing Again

Craig Brewer has inked a deal to write and direct a new installment of Tarzan for Warner Bros. To be told over three films as outlined by Brewer, Hollywoodteur studio Warner Bros is pleased to grant the greenlight to a potential lucrative trilogy while keeping its bottomline under control by streamlining the production.

Warner Bros has been stymied watching several attempts to relaunch the Edgar Rice Burroughs's infamous jungle fable. Screenwriter Adam Cozad has been working on a script that tells a different version of the man raised by apes in the jungles of Africa from infancy. Cozad's recent work includes the Jack Ryan reboot and Archangel, the pic that has Tron: Legacy's Joseph Kosinski attached.

How the studio decides which film to make remains to be seen, but clearly Warner Bros is determined to revive a live action Tarzan with budding Hollywoodteur, Brewer, who is in demand after directing the remake of Footloose for Paramount, and chose this over other opportunities. Hollywoodteur Jerry Weintraub is producing with Alan Riche and Tony Ludwig. Tarzan has been a fixture of films since the Depression, not of the current post Bush era, but the 1930s, most notably in the series of films that starred Olympic swimmer Johnny Weismuller.

Brewer, whose Footloose will be released October 14th, last directed Black Snake Moan and Hustle & Flow.