- TARZAN
According to Variety, True Blood star Alexander Skarsgard
has emerged as director David Yate’s top choice to play the title role in
Tarzan in Warner Bros.' retelling of the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel. No formal
offer has been made yet, though, and Warner’s has yet to green-light the film, however
it is rumoured that the film is likely to begin production in May 2013.
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| Alexander Skargard |
"Should Yates convince Warners brass to sign off on
Skarsgard's casting, the Swedish thesp would play John Clayton III, known
around the world as the famous "ape man" Tarzan. Years after he's
re-assimilated into society, he's asked by Queen Victoria to investigate the
goings-on in the Congo. Tarzan teams with an ex-mercenary named George
Washington Williams to save the Congo from a fierce warlord who controls a
massive diamond mine," claims Variety.
The Avengers' Samuel L. Jackson is up for the role of the
mercenary Williams, "a Civil War veteran eager to redeem himself for his
part in the massacre of Native Americans."
This would mark the second Tarzan film to be brought to the
big screen in the next year or 2, as a CGI motion capture Tarzan film is in
production and will likely release in 2013.
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