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09-03-2008, 05:04 AM
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Stephen Sommers to Direct Tarzan
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=48452
Source: Variety September 3, 2008 Stephen Sommers is in negotiations to direct a big screen version of Tarzan for Warner Bros. and producer Jerry Weintraub, reports Variety. Sommers will also co-write the Tarzan script with Stuart Beattie. Sommers directed the recently wrapped G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra for Paramount, with Beattie penning the final draft of the screenplay. Warner Bros. and Weintraub have been developing Tarzan since 2003, when John August was hired to pen a new take on the Edgar Rice Burroughs-created character. Two years ago, the studio was negotiating with Guillermo del Toro to direct. Burroughs' "Tarzan of the Apes" was written in 1912.
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09-03-2008, 05:15 AM
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Re: Stephen Sommers to Direct Tarzan
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09-03-2008, 05:43 AM
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Re: Stephen Sommers to Direct Tarzan
Stuart Beattie did Collateral and the Pirate movies right? If that's the case so long as Sommers hires a charismatic lead the film should be entertaining popcorn fodder.
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09-03-2008, 06:00 AM
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Re: Stephen Sommers to Direct Tarzan
Noooooo,i had so much expectations for Del Toros Version of Tarzan....he wanted to give us a Badass Killermaschine Tarzan but now we get another George of the Jungle.
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09-03-2008, 06:26 AM
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Re: Stephen Sommers to Direct Tarzan
No offense to Tarzan fans, but couldn't this have hit BEFORE he got his paws on G.I. Joe?
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09-03-2008, 07:04 AM
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Re: Stephen Sommers to Direct Tarzan
got a long way to go to beat greystoke...
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09-03-2008, 08:50 AM
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Re: Stephen Sommers to Direct Tarzan
I would have preferred Del Toro.
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Re: Stephen Sommers to Direct Tarzan
Why, god, why? It could have been anybody but Sommers, and I would have been content. ANYBODY.
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09-03-2008, 11:48 AM
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Re: Stephen Sommers to Direct Tarzan
...damn
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09-03-2008, 11:53 AM
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09-03-2008, 12:44 PM
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Re: Stephen Sommers to Direct Tarzan
This movie doesn't look good already.
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09-03-2008, 12:53 PM
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Re: Stephen Sommers to Direct Tarzan
Stop bashing....Sommers was born to direct movies like this...I hope things start moving and that GI Joe doesn't tank at the BO because I'd really like to see this one get made.
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09-03-2008, 02:03 PM
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Re: Stephen Sommers to Direct Tarzan
I'd rather see Mr. Burrough's story, John Carter on Mars as a film than Tarzan. I mean imagine a Civil War soldier mysteriously transported from the battlefield to the martian planet and having to survive and find a way back to earth. see, Martian Manhunter is just our payback on those rascally martians for abducting John Carter.
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09-03-2008, 02:07 PM
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Re: Stephen Sommers to Direct Tarzan
Not a big fan of Tarzan but I'll still give my two cents:
This movie is going to blow.
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09-03-2008, 02:12 PM
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Re: Stephen Sommers to Direct Tarzan
Tarzan? Does anyone care? It's been done SOOOO many times already.
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Re: Stephen Sommers to Direct Tarzan
He'll cast either Brenden Fraser or Dwayne Johnson as Tarzan.
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That could have been so much better. Sommers is alright, but i really hope he doesn't turn this into a "wild thrill ride, action adventure extravaganza!!". It's been a LOOOONG time since i read Tarzan Of The Apes, but i know it's not a thrill ride. It's pretty deep, from what i remember. |
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 Anyway, I'm a big fan of Burroughs' Tarzan books(and his John Carter of Mars books also), so I'm kinda' glad that another Tarzan attempt is being made. I can see Sommers probably doing a "Tarzan At The Earth's Core"-type of story, considering his films tend to be very fantastical. I hope G.I Joe will deliver, so that I can feel fully confident on Sommer's Tarzan take. Hopefully it will be more decent than The Jungle Book and Van Helsing. Hey, Paul W.S Anderson(AVP, Resident Evil) managed to make a not-too-shabby action ride with Death Race. |
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