The Legend of Tarzan Official Poster
"The Legend of Tarzan" trailer has landed packed with epic effects and action. The film is a new take on Edgar Rice Burroughs' iconic jungle classic. The trailer features tribes, apes and exhilarating vine-swinging action from its lead Alexander Skarsgard as Tarzan.
"Harry Potter" director David Yates is at the helm of the film. Yates considers the film as a proper way to reintroduce the wondrous landscapes of Africa in the big screens. He said, "They haven't been there for an awfully long time."
The film deviates from the Burrough's writings which focused on Tarzan being raised by simians and his rise as the Lord of the jungle. Instead, "The Legend of Tarzan" is set years after Tarzan left the African jungle to settle in London with his wife, Jane Porter.
The conflict begins when he gets invited back to the Congo as a trade emissary unaware that he is a pawn to a lethal plan formed out of greed and revenge, Huffington Post reported.
"This is about a man who's holding back and slowly as you peel off the layers, he reverts back to a more animalistic state and lets that side of his personality out," Skarsgard told USA Today.
To get in shape, Skarsgard spent four months of strict training regimen waking up every 4:30 in the morning for the role. "I basically didn't see my family or my friends," he said.
As for the role of Jane Porter, Yates envisions Robbie as an equal partner to Tarzan, "She's a really strong, assertive, beautifully knowledgeable, very sexy modern woman who can more than look after herself," he said then added, "In a way, it's a story of two human beings and how they save each other."
The film also stars Samuel L. Jackson, John Hurt and Russell Beale. Christopher Waltz will play the role of a villain as Captain Leon Rom. "The Legend of Tarzan" opens on July 1, 2016.
