Alexander Skarsgård To Play Tarzan In Director David Yates’ New Big-Screen Adventure; Slated For July 1, 2016 Release

Warner Bros. Pictures announced today that the Studio has entered into pre-production on a new live-action 3D TARZAN action adventure, bringing Edgar Rice Burroughs’ legendary character back to the big screen.

The film has been slated to open domestically on July 1, 2016.

Alexander Skarsgård (HBO’s “True Blood”) has been set to star as the man who was orphaned as a baby and raised in the jungle, later to return to the urban jungle of London.

The film also stars Oscar nominee Samuel L. Jackson (“Pulp Fiction”); Margot Robbie (“The Wolf of Wall Street”), as Jane Porter, who becomes the love of Tarzan’s life; and two-time Academy Award® winner Christoph Waltz (“Inglourious Basterds,” “Django Unchained”).

David Yates, who helmed the last four “Harry Potter” blockbusters, will direct the new feature from a screenplay based on the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Jerry Weintraub production, the film is being produced by Weintraub (“Behind the Candelabra,” the “Ocean’s” trilogy), together with David Barron and Alan Riche.