Craig Brewer gives an update on TARZAN

Tarzan has taken various forms on the big screen over the years, from animated to live-action. The king of the jungle is about to get a new take from Hustle & Flow director Craig Brewer. Brewer sat down with IamRogue to give an update on the Tarzan project while doing press for the remake of Footloose , which opens in theaters on Oct. 14.

Here is what he had to say about the current proposed Tarzan script:

I’ll tell you what … I am so excited about it because I just turned my script into the studio last Friday. I’m waiting to see what they think. My producing team loves it, and some other people at the studio have read it so I’m waiting to see. I can tell you it’s the best thing that I’ve ever written. I hope they’re going to let me do it because I really think we are going to make an incredible Tarzan. So I’m hoping to do it.

When asked if he would direct the film he responded by saying, "Oh yeah, oh yeah, definitely!" Brewer then went on to talk a bit about his take on the character and the story:

I don’t want to get too in to it but it definitely doesn’t take place in a modern context. I was a big fan of the Edgar Rice Burroughs’ books and it takes place in the African Congo around the turn of the century so it’s the classic legend.

I am a fan of live-action versions of Tarzan more than the animated ones to date. Brewer and I share a love of Greystoke when I was a kid. Here is what Brewer had to say about his favorite versions of Tarzan:

I grew up in the ‘80s so Greystoke was a big movie for me. I watched all the Weissmuller movies on TV when I was a kid on this channel in northern California caller TV44. I watched Tarzan’s Three Challenges, which was one of the color versions. This one image always stuck with me where Tarzan’s battling this other guy on these nets. They are all fighting on this net that is over this boiling cauldron of silver or something like that. Even as a kid I thought that was the most incredibly savage thing I’d ever seen. What away to die, you fall through a net and you get boiled to death. When I saw Greystoke it was the first time I saw any sort of origin tale told, so that was a very important movie to me

You can read more of the interview via the source below. I am looking forward to a new version of Tarzan. What are your thoughts?