"True Blood" star Alexander Skarsgård is due to play the loin cloth wearing vine-swinger.The Wolf of Wall Street actress Margot Robbie will play Jane. She won the role beating out Emma Stone and Jessica Chastain.
Jamie Foxx was being wooed for the third lead role--Civil War veteran and former mercenary George Washington Williams.--a part that Samuel L. Jackson will now play.Christoph Waltz ("Django Unchained," "Inglourious Basterds") will play bad guy Captain Rom, a Belgian soldier who wants to capture Tarzan in exchange for diamonds. Djimon Hounsou ("Amistad" "Guardians of the Galaxy") will play a character named Chief Mbonga in the film. Osy Ikhile has a “key supporting role that will keep him on set for the majority of the shoot.”
Adam Cozad penned the most recent script.
Jerry Weintraub and Alan Riche will produce the film.
The synopsis makes clear that they're taking a different approach over the previous screen adaptations-The film will play like a sequel rather than an origin story:
"It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgard) left the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life as John Clayton III, Lord Greystoke, with his beloved wife, Jane (Margot Robbie) at his side. Now, he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the Belgian, Captain Leon Rom (Christoph Waltz). But those behind the murderous plot have no idea what they are about to unleash."
Production is currently underway at Leavesden Studios in the UK, ahead of location shooting around England and Wales to meet its July 1, 2016 bow.
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