Tarzan Gets a Big-Screen Makeover

I can’t tell you the number of times I had to endure the “Me Tarzan, you Jane” jokes growing up. Or upon learning my name, people would ask, “Where’s Tarzan?” Very funny, ha ha.

Anyway, pretty soon, we’ll all know where Tarzan is, because he’s making a comeback to the big screen. But don’t expect the same-old-same-old on this one.

Director Stephen Sommers (”The Mummy”) and screenwriter Stuart Beattie (”Australia”) are ditching the boy-raised-by-apes story for a 1930’s action caper with lots of romance.

They’re saying it’ll be similar to “Pirates of the Caribbean” with tanned-and-toned actors flying through the jungle and sprinting up trees. Yeah, I guess it could work, especially since Beattie penned an early draft of “Pirates,” and we all know how well that franchise has done.

Image: Stephen Sommers, Van Helsing, Universal, 2004