A new Tarzan film is getting ready to swing into theaters, as Sony Pictures has reportedly picked up the film rights to the character.
, Sony recently purchased the rights to the character’s film presence from creator Edgar Rice Burroughs’ estate and is looking to do a “total reinvention” of both the character and the intellectual property.
As of now, no filmmaker, writers, or producers have been attached to a project, but the company is said to be looking for a “top-down re-imagining” of the iconic tale of— which focuses on an orphaned boy being raised in the jungle by great apes and then falling in love with a young woman — was a hit when it was launched. The tale soon made its way to other forms of media, the most famous of which was Disney’s 1999 animated classic., as various adaptations have failed, including Warner Bros.
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