Friday, August 29, 2014

Photos: WB's "Tarzan"

Just Jared has posted the first set photos from the briefly stalled--now back on with director David Yates re-imagining of Edgar Rice Burroughs "Tarzan" at Warner Bros..


Former "True Blood" star Alexander SkarsgĂ„rd 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.

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.

Skarsgard is not in any of the pics but three of the key supporting players are -Robbie, Waltz and Casper Crump as Captain Kerchover…Shooting has been taking place this week in Berkshire, England for several scenes set aboard a steam paddle boat.

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